Data processing device and data processing method

ABSTRACT

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, or 9/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 14/903,993, filed Jan. 8, 2016, which is a National Stage application of PCT/JP2015/063254, filed May 8, 2015, which claims priority to Japanese Application No. 2014-104810, filed May 21, 2014, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, and more particularly, a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code, for example.

BACKGROUND ART

Some of the information disclosed in this specification and the drawings was provided by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Samsung), LG Electronics Inc., NERC, and CRC/ETRI (indicated in the drawings).

A low density parity check (LDPC) code has a high error correction capability, and in recent years, the LDPC code has widely been employed in transmission schemes of digital broadcasting such as Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)-S.2, DVB-T.2, and DVB-C.2 of Europe and the like, or Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 of the USA and the like (for example, see Non-Patent Literature 1).

From a recent study, it is known that performance near a Shannon limit is obtained from the LDPC code when a code length increases, similar to a turbo code. Because the LDPC code has a property that a shortest distance is proportional to the code length, the LDPC code has advantages of a block error probability characteristic being superior and a so-called error floor phenomenon observed in a decoding characteristic of the turbo code being rarely generated, as characteristics thereof.

CITATION LIST Non-Patent Literature

-   Non-Patent Literature 1: DVB-S.2: ETSI EN 302 307 V1.2.1     (2009-August)

SUMMARY OF INVENTION Technical Problem

In data transmission using the LDPC code, for example, the LDPC code is converted into a symbol of an orthogonal modulation (digital modulation) such as Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), and the symbol is mapped to a signal point of the orthogonal modulation and transmitted.

The data transmission using the LDPC code has spread worldwide, and there is a demand to secure excellent communication (transmission) quality.

The present technology was made in light of the foregoing, and it is desirable to secure excellent communication quality in data transmission using the LDPC code.

Solution to Problem

A first data processing device/method according to the present technology is a data processing device/method including: an encoding unit/step configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15; a group-wise interleaving unit/step configured to perform group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unit/step configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121, 151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110, 128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150, 103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89, 4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124, 7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112, 99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44, 106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88, 54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24, 49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176, 74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130, 160, 2, 126, 51, and 137.

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

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In the first data processing device/method according to the present technology, LDPC encoding is performed based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15. Group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits is performed. The LDPC code is mapped to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121, 151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110, 128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150, 103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89, 4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124, 7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112, 99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44, 106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88, 54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24, 49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176, 74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130, 160, 2, 126, 51, and 137.

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

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1264 4254 6936 9165 9486 9950 10861 11653 13697 13961 15164 15665 18444 19470 20313 21189 24371 26431 26999 28086 28251 29261 31981 34015 35850 36129 37186

111 1307 1628 2041 2524 5358 7988 8191 10322 11905 12919 14127 15515 15711 17061 19024 21195 22902 23727 24401 24608 25111 25228 27338 35398 37794 38196

961 3035 7174 7948 13355 13607 14971 18189 18339 18665 18875 19142 20615 21136 21309 21758 23366 24745 25849 25982 27583 30006 31118 32106 36469 36583 37920

2990 3549 4273 4808 5707 6021 6509 7456 8240 10044 12262 12660 13085 14750 15680 16049 21587 23997 25803 28343 28693 34393 34860 35490 36021 37737 38296

955 4323 5145 6885 8123 9730 11840 12216 19194 20313 23056 24248 24830 25268 26617 26801 28557 29753 30745 31450 31973 32839 33025 33296 35710 37366 37509

264 605 4181 4483 5156 7238 8863 10939 11251 12964 16254 17511 20017 22395 22818 23261 23422 24064 26329 27723 28186 30434 31956 33971 34372 36764 38123

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10106 10637 10906 34242

1856 15100 19378 21848

943 11191 27806 29411

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5441 6381 21840 35943

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8150 16677 27934 30021

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2740 14957 23436 32540

3491 14365 14681 36858

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6502 13641 17509 34713

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12328 20515 30651 31432

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4608 25513 38874

475 1729 34100

7348 32277 38587

182 16473 33082

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4447 20151 27618

6335 14371 38711

704 9695 28858

4856 9757 30546

1993 19361 30732

756 28000 29138

3821 24076 31813

4611 12326 32291

7628 21515 34995

1246 13294 30068

6466 33233 35865

14484 23274 38150

21269 36411 37450

23129 26195 37653.

A second data processing device/method according to the present technology is a data processing device/method including: a group-wise deinterleaving unit/step configured to restore a sequence of an LDPC code that has undergone group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device to an original sequence, the transmitting device including an encoding unit configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15, a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform the group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121, 151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110, 128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150, 103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89, 4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124, 7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112, 99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44, 106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88, 54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24, 49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176, 74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130, 160, 2, 126, 51, and 137.

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

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961 3035 7174 7948 13355 13607 14971 18189 18339 18665 18875 19142 20615 21136 21309 21758 23366 24745 25849 25982 27583 30006 31118 32106 36469 36583 37920

2990 3549 4273 4808 5707 6021 6509 7456 8240 10044 12262 12660 13085 14750 15680 16049 21587 23997 25803 28343 28693 34393 34860 35490 36021 37737 38296

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264 605 4181 4483 5156 7238 8863 10939 11251 12964 16254 17511 20017 22395 22818 23261 23422 24064 26329 27723 28186 30434 31956 33971 34372 36764 38123

520 2562 2794 3528 3860 4402 5676 6963 8655 9018 9783 11933 16336 17193 17320 19035 20606 23579 23769 24123 24966 27866 32457 34011 34499 36620 37526

10106 10637 10906 34242

1856 15100 19378 21848

943 11191 27806 29411

4575 6359 13629 19383

4476 4953 18782 24313

5441 6381 21840 35943

9638 9763 12546 30120

9587 10626 11047 25700

4088 15298 28768 35047

2332 6363 8782 28863

4625 4933 28298 30289

3541 4918 18257 31746

1221 25233 26757 34892

8150 16677 27934 30021

8500 25016 33043 38070

7374 10207 16189 35811

611 18480 20064 38261

25416 27352 36089 38469

1667 17614 25839 32776

4118 12481 21912 37945

5573 13222 23619 31271

18271 26251 27182 30587

14690 26430 26799 34355

13688 16040 20716 34558

2740 14957 23436 32540

3491 14365 14681 36858

4796 6238 25203 27854

1731 12816 17344 26025

19182 21662 23742 27872

6502 13641 17509 34713

12246 12372 16746 27452

1589 21528 30621 34003

12328 20515 30651 31432

3415 22656 23427 36395

632 5209 25958 31085

619 3690 19648 37778

9528 13581 26965 36447

2147 26249 26968 28776

15698 18209 30683

1132 19888 34111

4608 25513 38874

475 1729 34100

7348 32277 38587

182 16473 33082

3865 9678 21265

4447 20151 27618

6335 14371 38711

704 9695 28858

4856 9757 30546

1993 19361 30732

756 28000 29138

3821 24076 31813

4611 12326 32291

7628 21515 34995

1246 13294 30068

6466 33233 35865

14484 23274 38150

21269 36411 37450

23129 26195 37653.

In the second data processing device/method according to the present technology, a sequence of an LDPC code that has undergone group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device is restored to an original sequence, the transmitting device including an encoding unit configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15, a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform the group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121, 151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110, 128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150, 103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89, 4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124, 7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112, 99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44, 106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88, 54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24, 49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176, 74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130, 160, 2, 126, 51, and 137.

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

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3118 3545 4768 4992 5227 6732 8170 9397 10522 11508 15536 20218 21921 28599 29445 29758 29968 31014 32027 33685 34378 35867 36323 36728 36870 38335 38623

1264 4254 6936 9165 9486 9950 10861 11653 13697 13961 15164 15665 18444 19470 20313 21189 24371 26431 26999 28086 28251 29261 31981 34015 35850 36129 37186

111 1307 1628 2041 2524 5358 7988 8191 10322 11905 12919 14127 15515 15711 17061 19024 21195 22902 23727 24401 24608 25111 25228 27338 35398 37794 38196

961 3035 7174 7948 13355 13607 14971 18189 18339 18665 18875 19142 20615 21136 21309 21758 23366 24745 25849 25982 27583 30006 31118 32106 36469 36583 37920

2990 3549 4273 4808 5707 6021 6509 7456 8240 10044 12262 12660 13085 14750 15680 16049 21587 23997 25803 28343 28693 34393 34860 35490 36021 37737 38296

955 4323 5145 6885 8123 9730 11840 12216 19194 20313 23056 24248 24830 25268 26617 26801 28557 29753 30745 31450 31973 32839 33025 33296 35710 37366 37509

264 605 4181 4483 5156 7238 8863 10939 11251 12964 16254 17511 20017 22395 22818 23261 23422 24064 26329 27723 28186 30434 31956 33971 34372 36764 38123

520 2562 2794 3528 3860 4402 5676 6963 8655 9018 9783 11933 16336 17193 17320 19035 20606 23579 23769 24123 24966 27866 32457 34011 34499 36620 37526

10106 10637 10906 34242

1856 15100 19378 21848

943 11191 27806 29411

4575 6359 13629 19383

4476 4953 18782 24313

5441 6381 21840 35943

9638 9763 12546 30120

9587 10626 11047 25700

4088 15298 28768 35047

2332 6363 8782 28863

4625 4933 28298 30289

3541 4918 18257 31746

1221 25233 26757 34892

8150 16677 27934 30021

8500 25016 33043 38070

7374 10207 16189 35811

611 18480 20064 38261

25416 27352 36089 38469

1667 17614 25839 32776

4118 12481 21912 37945

5573 13222 23619 31271

18271 26251 27182 30587

14690 26430 26799 34355

13688 16040 20716 34558

2740 14957 23436 32540

3491 14365 14681 36858

4796 6238 25203 27854

1731 12816 17344 26025

19182 21662 23742 27872

6502 13641 17509 34713

12246 12372 16746 27452

1589 21528 30621 34003

12328 20515 30651 31432

3415 22656 23427 36395

632 5209 25958 31085

619 3690 19648 37778

9528 13581 26965 36447

2147 26249 26968 28776

15698 18209 30683

1132 19888 34111

4608 25513 38874

475 1729 34100

7348 32277 38587

182 16473 33082

3865 9678 21265

4447 20151 27618

6335 14371 38711

704 9695 28858

4856 9757 30546

1993 19361 30732

756 28000 29138

3821 24076 31813

4611 12326 32291

7628 21515 34995

1246 13294 30068

6466 33233 35865

14484 23274 38150

21269 36411 37450

23129 26195 37653.

A third data processing device/method according to the present technology is a data processing device/method including: an encoding unit/step configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 7/15; a group-wise interleaving unit/step configured to perform group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unit/step configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

66, 61, 150, 157, 63, 42, 78, 44, 23, 154, 133, 101, 82, 26, 84, 123, 89, 31, 45, 102, 36, 134, 83, 117, 170, 27, 73, 137, 25, 32, 62, 91, 4, 20, 144, 145, 21, 74, 113, 148, 24, 135, 5, 19, 2, 34, 43, 168, 14, 64, 142, 115, 87, 38, 147, 39, 51, 152, 56, 86, 122, 76, 57, 129, 172, 6, 126, 10, 97, 85, 164, 3, 80, 90, 79, 124, 138, 120, 17, 103, 99, 116, 46, 98, 162, 151, 143, 11, 175, 160, 96, 132, 81, 171, 94, 65, 118, 161, 125, 178, 95, 112, 88, 174, 13, 35, 1, 167, 0, 128, 12, 58, 29, 169, 67, 28, 119, 166, 60, 55, 54, 130, 92, 146, 177, 149, 111, 9, 173, 179, 176, 75, 77, 114, 48, 159, 8, 141, 107, 139, 52, 100, 136, 105, 127, 47, 18, 69, 109, 16, 121, 59, 163, 165, 108, 106, 70, 22, 93, 41, 33, 110, 53, 140, 153, 158, 50, 15, 37, 72, 156, 7, 131, 49, 71, 68, 104, 30, 40, and 155.

The parity check matrix includes a g×K A matrix arranged on an upper left of the parity check matrix, the A matrix being indicated by a predetermined value g and an information length K=N×r of the LDPC code, a g×g B matrix having a staircase structure, the B matrix being adjacent to the right of the A matrix, a g×(N−K−g) Z matrix serving as a zero matrix adjacent to the right of the B matrix, an (N−K−g)×(K+g) C matrix adjacently below the A matrix and the B matrix, and an (N−K−g)×(N−K−g) D matrix serving as a unit matrix adjacent to the right of the C matrix. The predetermined value g is 1080. The A matrix and the C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which positions of 1 elements of the A matrix and the C matrix are indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

460 792 1007 4580 11452 13130 26882 27020 32439

35 472 1056 7154 12700 13326 13414 16828 19102

45 440 772 4854 7863 26945 27684 28651 31875

744 812 892 1509 9018 12925 14140 21357 25106

271 474 761 4268 6706 9609 19701 19707 24870

223 477 662 1987 9247 18376 22148 24948 27694

44 379 786 8823 12322 14666 16377 28688 29924

104 219 562 5832 19665 20615 21043 22759 32180

41 43 870 7963 13718 14136 17216 30470 33428

592 744 887 4513 6192 18116 19482 25032 34095

456 821 1078 7162 7443 8774 15567 17243 33085

151 666 977 6946 10358 11172 18129 19777 32234

236 793 870 2001 6805 9047 13877 30131 34252

297 698 772 3449 4204 11608 22950 26071 27512

202 428 474 3205 3726 6223 7708 20214 25283

139 719 915 1447 2938 11864 15932 21748 28598

135 853 902 3239 18590 20579 30578 33374 34045

9 13 971 11834 13642 17628 21669 24741 30965

344 531 730 1880 16895 17587 21901 28620 31957

7 192 380 3168 3729 5518 6827 20372 34168

28 521 681 4313 7465 14209 21501 23364 25980

269 393 898 3561 11066 11985 17311 26127 30309

42 82 707 4880 4890 9818 23340 25959 31695

189 262 707 6573 14082 22259 24230 24390 24664

383 568 573 5498 13449 13990 16904 22629 34203

585 596 820 2440 2488 21956 28261 28703 29591

755 763 795 5636 16433 21714 23452 31150 34545

23 343 669 1159 3507 13096 17978 24241 34321

316 384 944 4872 8491 18913 21085 23198 24798

64 314 765 3706 7136 8634 14227 17127 23437

220 693 899 8791 12417 13487 18335 22126 27428

285 794 1045 8624 8801 9547 19167 21894 32657

386 621 1045 1634 1882 3172 13686 16027 22448

95 622 693 2827 7098 11452 14112 18831 31308

446 813 928 7976 8935 13146 27117 27766 33111

89 138 241 3218 9283 20458 31484 31538 34216

277 420 704 9281 12576 12788 14496 15357 20585

141 643 758 4894 10264 15144 16357 22478 26461

17 108 160 13183 15424 17939 19276 23714 26655

109 285 608 1682 20223 21791 24615 29622 31983

123 515 622 7037 13946 15292 15606 16262 23742

264 565 923 6460 13622 13934 23181 25475 26134

202 548 789 8003 10993 12478 16051 25114 27579

121 450 575 5972 10062 18693 21852 23874 28031

507 560 889 12064 13316 19629 21547 25461 28732

664 786 1043 9137 9294 10163 23389 31436 34297

45 830 907 10730 16541 21232 30354 30605 31847

203 507 1060 6971 12216 13321 17861 22671 29825

369 881 952 3035 12279 12775 17682 17805 34281

683 709 1032 3787 17623 24138 26775 31432 33626

524 792 1042 12249 14765 18601 25811 32422 33163

137 639 688 7182 8169 10443 22530 24597 29039

159 643 749 16386 17401 24135 28429 33468 33469

107 481 555 7322 13234 19344 23498 26581 31378

249 389 523 3421 10150 17616 19085 20545 32069

395 738 1045 2415 3005 3820 19541 23543 31068

27 293 703 1717 3460 8326 8501 10290 32625

126 247 515 6031 9549 10643 22067 29490 34450

331 471 1007 3020 3922 7580 23358 28620 30946

222 542 1021 3291 3652 13130 16349 33009 34348

532 719 1038 5891 7528 23252 25472 31395 31774

145 398 774 7816 13887 14936 23708 31712 33160

88 536 600 1239 1887 12195 13782 16726 27998

151 269 585 1445 3178 3970 15568 20358 21051

650 819 865 15567 18546 25571 32038 33350 33620

93 469 800 6059 10405 12296 17515 21354 22231

97 206 951 6161 16376 27022 29192 30190 30665

412 549 986 5833 10583 10766 24946 28878 31937

72 604 659 5267 12227 21714 32120 33472 33974

25 902 912 1137 2975 9642 11598 25919 28278

420 976 1055 8473 11512 20198 21662 25443 30119

1 24 932 6426 11899 13217 13935 16548 29737

53 618 988 6280 7267 11676 13575 15532 25787

111 739 809 8133 12717 12741 20253 20608 27850

120 683 943 14496 15162 15440 18660 27543 32404

600 754 1055 7873 9679 17351 27268 33508

344 756 1054 7102 7193 22903 24720 27883

582 1003 1046 11344 23756 27497 27977 32853

28 429 509 11106 11767 12729 13100 31792

131 555 907 5113 10259 10300 20580 23029

406 915 977 12244 20259 26616 27899 32228

46 195 224 1229 4116 10263 13608 17830

19 819 953 7965 9998 13959 30580 30754

164 1003 1032 12920 15975 16582 22624 27357

8433 11894 13531 17675 25889 31384

3166 3813 8596 10368 25104 29584

2466 8241 12424 13376 24837 32711.

In the third data processing device/method according to the present technology, LDPC encoding is performed based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 7/15. Group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits is performed. The LDPC code is mapped to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

66, 61, 150, 157, 63, 42, 78, 44, 23, 154, 133, 101, 82, 26, 84, 123, 89, 31, 45, 102, 36, 134, 83, 117, 170, 27, 73, 137, 25, 32, 62, 91, 4, 20, 144, 145, 21, 74, 113, 148, 24, 135, 5, 19, 2, 34, 43, 168, 14, 64, 142, 115, 87, 38, 147, 39, 51, 152, 56, 86, 122, 76, 57, 129, 172, 6, 126, 10, 97, 85, 164, 3, 80, 90, 79, 124, 138, 120, 17, 103, 99, 116, 46, 98, 162, 151, 143, 11, 175, 160, 96, 132, 81, 171, 94, 65, 118, 161, 125, 178, 95, 112, 88, 174, 13, 35, 1, 167, 0, 128, 12, 58, 29, 169, 67, 28, 119, 166, 60, 55, 54, 130, 92, 146, 177, 149, 111, 9, 173, 179, 176, 75, 77, 114, 48, 159, 8, 141, 107, 139, 52, 100, 136, 105, 127, 47, 18, 69, 109, 16, 121, 59, 163, 165, 108, 106, 70, 22, 93, 41, 33, 110, 53, 140, 153, 158, 50, 15, 37, 72, 156, 7, 131, 49, 71, 68, 104, 30, 40, and 155.

The parity check matrix includes a g×K A matrix arranged on an upper left of the parity check matrix, the A matrix being indicated by a predetermined value g and an information length K=N×r of the LDPC code, a g×g B matrix having a staircase structure, the B matrix being adjacent to the right of the A matrix, a g×(N−K−g) Z matrix serving as a zero matrix adjacent to the right of the B matrix, an (N−K−g)×(K+g) C matrix adjacently below the A matrix and the B matrix, and an (N−K−g)×(N−K−g) D matrix serving as a unit matrix adjacent to the right of the C matrix. The predetermined value g is 1080. The A matrix and the C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which positions of 1 elements of the A matrix and the C matrix are indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

460 792 1007 4580 11452 13130 26882 27020 32439

35 472 1056 7154 12700 13326 13414 16828 19102

45 440 772 4854 7863 26945 27684 28651 31875

744 812 892 1509 9018 12925 14140 21357 25106

271 474 761 4268 6706 9609 19701 19707 24870

223 477 662 1987 9247 18376 22148 24948 27694

44 379 786 8823 12322 14666 16377 28688 29924

104 219 562 5832 19665 20615 21043 22759 32180

41 43 870 7963 13718 14136 17216 30470 33428

592 744 887 4513 6192 18116 19482 25032 34095

456 821 1078 7162 7443 8774 15567 17243 33085

151 666 977 6946 10358 11172 18129 19777 32234

236 793 870 2001 6805 9047 13877 30131 34252

297 698 772 3449 4204 11608 22950 26071 27512

202 428 474 3205 3726 6223 7708 20214 25283

139 719 915 1447 2938 11864 15932 21748 28598

135 853 902 3239 18590 20579 30578 33374 34045

9 13 971 11834 13642 17628 21669 24741 30965

344 531 730 1880 16895 17587 21901 28620 31957

7 192 380 3168 3729 5518 6827 20372 34168

28 521 681 4313 7465 14209 21501 23364 25980

269 393 898 3561 11066 11985 17311 26127 30309

42 82 707 4880 4890 9818 23340 25959 31695

189 262 707 6573 14082 22259 24230 24390 24664

383 568 573 5498 13449 13990 16904 22629 34203

585 596 820 2440 2488 21956 28261 28703 29591

755 763 795 5636 16433 21714 23452 31150 34545

23 343 669 1159 3507 13096 17978 24241 34321

316 384 944 4872 8491 18913 21085 23198 24798

64 314 765 3706 7136 8634 14227 17127 23437

220 693 899 8791 12417 13487 18335 22126 27428

285 794 1045 8624 8801 9547 19167 21894 32657

386 621 1045 1634 1882 3172 13686 16027 22448

95 622 693 2827 7098 11452 14112 18831 31308

446 813 928 7976 8935 13146 27117 27766 33111

89 138 241 3218 9283 20458 31484 31538 34216

277 420 704 9281 12576 12788 14496 15357 20585

141 643 758 4894 10264 15144 16357 22478 26461

17 108 160 13183 15424 17939 19276 23714 26655

109 285 608 1682 20223 21791 24615 29622 31983

123 515 622 7037 13946 15292 15606 16262 23742

264 565 923 6460 13622 13934 23181 25475 26134

202 548 789 8003 10993 12478 16051 25114 27579

121 450 575 5972 10062 18693 21852 23874 28031

507 560 889 12064 13316 19629 21547 25461 28732

664 786 1043 9137 9294 10163 23389 31436 34297

45 830 907 10730 16541 21232 30354 30605 31847

203 507 1060 6971 12216 13321 17861 22671 29825

369 881 952 3035 12279 12775 17682 17805 34281

683 709 1032 3787 17623 24138 26775 31432 33626

524 792 1042 12249 14765 18601 25811 32422 33163

137 639 688 7182 8169 10443 22530 24597 29039

159 643 749 16386 17401 24135 28429 33468 33469

107 481 555 7322 13234 19344 23498 26581 31378

249 389 523 3421 10150 17616 19085 20545 32069

395 738 1045 2415 3005 3820 19541 23543 31068

27 293 703 1717 3460 8326 8501 10290 32625

126 247 515 6031 9549 10643 22067 29490 34450

331 471 1007 3020 3922 7580 23358 28620 30946

222 542 1021 3291 3652 13130 16349 33009 34348

532 719 1038 5891 7528 23252 25472 31395 31774

145 398 774 7816 13887 14936 23708 31712 33160

88 536 600 1239 1887 12195 13782 16726 27998

151 269 585 1445 3178 3970 15568 20358 21051

650 819 865 15567 18546 25571 32038 33350 33620

93 469 800 6059 10405 12296 17515 21354 22231

97 206 951 6161 16376 27022 29192 30190 30665

412 549 986 5833 10583 10766 24946 28878 31937

72 604 659 5267 12227 21714 32120 33472 33974

25 902 912 1137 2975 9642 11598 25919 28278

420 976 1055 8473 11512 20198 21662 25443 30119

1 24 932 6426 11899 13217 13935 16548 29737

53 618 988 6280 7267 11676 13575 15532 25787

111 739 809 8133 12717 12741 20253 20608 27850

120 683 943 14496 15162 15440 18660 27543 32404

600 754 1055 7873 9679 17351 27268 33508

344 756 1054 7102 7193 22903 24720 27883

582 1003 1046 11344 23756 27497 27977 32853

28 429 509 11106 11767 12729 13100 31792

131 555 907 5113 10259 10300 20580 23029

406 915 977 12244 20259 26616 27899 32228

46 195 224 1229 4116 10263 13608 17830

19 819 953 7965 9998 13959 30580 30754

164 1003 1032 12920 15975 16582 22624 27357

8433 11894 13531 17675 25889 31384

3166 3813 8596 10368 25104 29584

2466 8241 12424 13376 24837 32711.

A fourth data processing device/method according to the present technology is a data processing device/method including: a group-wise deinterleaving unit/step configured to restore a sequence of an LDPC code that has undergone group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device to an original sequence, the transmitting device including an encoding unit configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 7/15, a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform the group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

66, 61, 150, 157, 63, 42, 78, 44, 23, 154, 133, 101, 82, 26, 84, 123, 89, 31, 45, 102, 36, 134, 83, 117, 170, 27, 73, 137, 25, 32, 62, 91, 4, 20, 144, 145, 21, 74, 113, 148, 24, 135, 5, 19, 2, 34, 43, 168, 14, 64, 142, 115, 87, 38, 147, 39, 51, 152, 56, 86, 122, 76, 57, 129, 172, 6, 126, 10, 97, 85, 164, 3, 80, 90, 79, 124, 138, 120, 17, 103, 99, 116, 46, 98, 162, 151, 143, 11, 175, 160, 96, 132, 81, 171, 94, 65, 118, 161, 125, 178, 95, 112, 88, 174, 13, 35, 1, 167, 0, 128, 12, 58, 29, 169, 67, 28, 119, 166, 60, 55, 54, 130, 92, 146, 177, 149, 111, 9, 173, 179, 176, 75, 77, 114, 48, 159, 8, 141, 107, 139, 52, 100, 136, 105, 127, 47, 18, 69, 109, 16, 121, 59, 163, 165, 108, 106, 70, 22, 93, 41, 33, 110, 53, 140, 153, 158, 50, 15, 37, 72, 156, 7, 131, 49, 71, 68, 104, 30, 40, and 155.

The parity check matrix includes a g×K A matrix arranged on an upper left of the parity check matrix, the A matrix being indicated by a predetermined value g and an information length K=N×r of the LDPC code, a g×g B matrix having a staircase structure, the B matrix being adjacent to the right of the A matrix, a g×(N−K−g) Z matrix serving as a zero matrix adjacent to the right of the B matrix, an (N−K−g)×(K+g) C matrix adjacently below the A matrix and the B matrix, and an (N−K−g)×(N−K−g) D matrix serving as a unit matrix adjacent to the right of the C matrix. The predetermined value g is 1080. The A matrix and the C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which positions of 1 elements of the A matrix and the C matrix are indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

460 792 1007 4580 11452 13130 26882 27020 32439

35 472 1056 7154 12700 13326 13414 16828 19102

45 440 772 4854 7863 26945 27684 28651 31875

744 812 892 1509 9018 12925 14140 21357 25106

271 474 761 4268 6706 9609 19701 19707 24870

223 477 662 1987 9247 18376 22148 24948 27694

44 379 786 8823 12322 14666 16377 28688 29924

104 219 562 5832 19665 20615 21043 22759 32180

41 43 870 7963 13718 14136 17216 30470 33428

592 744 887 4513 6192 18116 19482 25032 34095

456 821 1078 7162 7443 8774 15567 17243 33085

151 666 977 6946 10358 11172 18129 19777 32234

236 793 870 2001 6805 9047 13877 30131 34252

297 698 772 3449 4204 11608 22950 26071 27512

202 428 474 3205 3726 6223 7708 20214 25283

139 719 915 1447 2938 11864 15932 21748 28598

135 853 902 3239 18590 20579 30578 33374 34045

9 13 971 11834 13642 17628 21669 24741 30965

344 531 730 1880 16895 17587 21901 28620 31957

7 192 380 3168 3729 5518 6827 20372 34168

28 521 681 4313 7465 14209 21501 23364 25980

269 393 898 3561 11066 11985 17311 26127 30309

42 82 707 4880 4890 9818 23340 25959 31695

189 262 707 6573 14082 22259 24230 24390 24664

383 568 573 5498 13449 13990 16904 22629 34203

585 596 820 2440 2488 21956 28261 28703 29591

755 763 795 5636 16433 21714 23452 31150 34545

23 343 669 1159 3507 13096 17978 24241 34321

316 384 944 4872 8491 18913 21085 23198 24798

64 314 765 3706 7136 8634 14227 17127 23437

220 693 899 8791 12417 13487 18335 22126 27428

285 794 1045 8624 8801 9547 19167 21894 32657

386 621 1045 1634 1882 3172 13686 16027 22448

95 622 693 2827 7098 11452 14112 18831 31308

446 813 928 7976 8935 13146 27117 27766 33111

89 138 241 3218 9283 20458 31484 31538 34216

277 420 704 9281 12576 12788 14496 15357 20585

141 643 758 4894 10264 15144 16357 22478 26461

17 108 160 13183 15424 17939 19276 23714 26655

109 285 608 1682 20223 21791 24615 29622 31983

123 515 622 7037 13946 15292 15606 16262 23742

264 565 923 6460 13622 13934 23181 25475 26134

202 548 789 8003 10993 12478 16051 25114 27579

121 450 575 5972 10062 18693 21852 23874 28031

507 560 889 12064 13316 19629 21547 25461 28732

664 786 1043 9137 9294 10163 23389 31436 34297

45 830 907 10730 16541 21232 30354 30605 31847

203 507 1060 6971 12216 13321 17861 22671 29825

369 881 952 3035 12279 12775 17682 17805 34281

683 709 1032 3787 17623 24138 26775 31432 33626

524 792 1042 12249 14765 18601 25811 32422 33163

137 639 688 7182 8169 10443 22530 24597 29039

159 643 749 16386 17401 24135 28429 33468 33469

107 481 555 7322 13234 19344 23498 26581 31378

249 389 523 3421 10150 17616 19085 20545 32069

395 738 1045 2415 3005 3820 19541 23543 31068

27 293 703 1717 3460 8326 8501 10290 32625

126 247 515 6031 9549 10643 22067 29490 34450

331 471 1007 3020 3922 7580 23358 28620 30946

222 542 1021 3291 3652 13130 16349 33009 34348

532 719 1038 5891 7528 23252 25472 31395 31774

145 398 774 7816 13887 14936 23708 31712 33160

88 536 600 1239 1887 12195 13782 16726 27998

151 269 585 1445 3178 3970 15568 20358 21051

650 819 865 15567 18546 25571 32038 33350 33620

93 469 800 6059 10405 12296 17515 21354 22231

97 206 951 6161 16376 27022 29192 30190 30665

412 549 986 5833 10583 10766 24946 28878 31937

72 604 659 5267 12227 21714 32120 33472 33974

25 902 912 1137 2975 9642 11598 25919 28278

420 976 1055 8473 11512 20198 21662 25443 30119

1 24 932 6426 11899 13217 13935 16548 29737

53 618 988 6280 7267 11676 13575 15532 25787

111 739 809 8133 12717 12741 20253 20608 27850

120 683 943 14496 15162 15440 18660 27543 32404

600 754 1055 7873 9679 17351 27268 33508

344 756 1054 7102 7193 22903 24720 27883

582 1003 1046 11344 23756 27497 27977 32853

28 429 509 11106 11767 12729 13100 31792

131 555 907 5113 10259 10300 20580 23029

406 915 977 12244 20259 26616 27899 32228

46 195 224 1229 4116 10263 13608 17830

19 819 953 7965 9998 13959 30580 30754

164 1003 1032 12920 15975 16582 22624 27357

8433 11894 13531 17675 25889 31384

3166 3813 8596 10368 25104 29584

2466 8241 12424 13376 24837 32711.

In the fourth data processing device/method according to the present technology, a sequence of an LDPC code that has undergone group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device is restored to an original sequence, the transmitting device including an encoding unit configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 7/15, a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform the group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

66, 61, 150, 157, 63, 42, 78, 44, 23, 154, 133, 101, 82, 26, 84, 123, 89, 31, 45, 102, 36, 134, 83, 117, 170, 27, 73, 137, 25, 32, 62, 91, 4, 20, 144, 145, 21, 74, 113, 148, 24, 135, 5, 19, 2, 34, 43, 168, 14, 64, 142, 115, 87, 38, 147, 39, 51, 152, 56, 86, 122, 76, 57, 129, 172, 6, 126, 10, 97, 85, 164, 3, 80, 90, 79, 124, 138, 120, 17, 103, 99, 116, 46, 98, 162, 151, 143, 11, 175, 160, 96, 132, 81, 171, 94, 65, 118, 161, 125, 178, 95, 112, 88, 174, 13, 35, 1, 167, 0, 128, 12, 58, 29, 169, 67, 28, 119, 166, 60, 55, 54, 130, 92, 146, 177, 149, 111, 9, 173, 179, 176, 75, 77, 114, 48, 159, 8, 141, 107, 139, 52, 100, 136, 105, 127, 47, 18, 69, 109, 16, 121, 59, 163, 165, 108, 106, 70, 22, 93, 41, 33, 110, 53, 140, 153, 158, 50, 15, 37, 72, 156, 7, 131, 49, 71, 68, 104, 30, 40, and 155.

The parity check matrix includes a g×K A matrix arranged on an upper left of the parity check matrix, the A matrix being indicated by a predetermined value g and an information length K=N×r of the LDPC code, a g×g B matrix having a staircase structure, the B matrix being adjacent to the right of the A matrix, a g×(N−K−g) Z matrix serving as a zero matrix adjacent to the right of the B matrix, an (N−K−g)×(K+g) C matrix adjacently below the A matrix and the B matrix, and an (N−K−g)×(N−K−g) D matrix serving as a unit matrix adjacent to the right of the C matrix. The predetermined value g is 1080. The A matrix and the C matrix are represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which positions of 1 elements of the A matrix and the C matrix are indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

460 792 1007 4580 11452 13130 26882 27020 32439

35 472 1056 7154 12700 13326 13414 16828 19102

45 440 772 4854 7863 26945 27684 28651 31875

744 812 892 1509 9018 12925 14140 21357 25106

271 474 761 4268 6706 9609 19701 19707 24870

223 477 662 1987 9247 18376 22148 24948 27694

44 379 786 8823 12322 14666 16377 28688 29924

104 219 562 5832 19665 20615 21043 22759 32180

41 43 870 7963 13718 14136 17216 30470 33428

592 744 887 4513 6192 18116 19482 25032 34095

456 821 1078 7162 7443 8774 15567 17243 33085

151 666 977 6946 10358 11172 18129 19777 32234

236 793 870 2001 6805 9047 13877 30131 34252

297 698 772 3449 4204 11608 22950 26071 27512

202 428 474 3205 3726 6223 7708 20214 25283

139 719 915 1447 2938 11864 15932 21748 28598

135 853 902 3239 18590 20579 30578 33374 34045

9 13 971 11834 13642 17628 21669 24741 30965

344 531 730 1880 16895 17587 21901 28620 31957

7 192 380 3168 3729 5518 6827 20372 34168

28 521 681 4313 7465 14209 21501 23364 25980

269 393 898 3561 11066 11985 17311 26127 30309

42 82 707 4880 4890 9818 23340 25959 31695

189 262 707 6573 14082 22259 24230 24390 24664

383 568 573 5498 13449 13990 16904 22629 34203

585 596 820 2440 2488 21956 28261 28703 29591

755 763 795 5636 16433 21714 23452 31150 34545

23 343 669 1159 3507 13096 17978 24241 34321

316 384 944 4872 8491 18913 21085 23198 24798

64 314 765 3706 7136 8634 14227 17127 23437

220 693 899 8791 12417 13487 18335 22126 27428

285 794 1045 8624 8801 9547 19167 21894 32657

386 621 1045 1634 1882 3172 13686 16027 22448

95 622 693 2827 7098 11452 14112 18831 31308

446 813 928 7976 8935 13146 27117 27766 33111

89 138 241 3218 9283 20458 31484 31538 34216

277 420 704 9281 12576 12788 14496 15357 20585

141 643 758 4894 10264 15144 16357 22478 26461

17 108 160 13183 15424 17939 19276 23714 26655

109 285 608 1682 20223 21791 24615 29622 31983

123 515 622 7037 13946 15292 15606 16262 23742

264 565 923 6460 13622 13934 23181 25475 26134

202 548 789 8003 10993 12478 16051 25114 27579

121 450 575 5972 10062 18693 21852 23874 28031

507 560 889 12064 13316 19629 21547 25461 28732

664 786 1043 9137 9294 10163 23389 31436 34297

45 830 907 10730 16541 21232 30354 30605 31847

203 507 1060 6971 12216 13321 17861 22671 29825

369 881 952 3035 12279 12775 17682 17805 34281

683 709 1032 3787 17623 24138 26775 31432 33626

524 792 1042 12249 14765 18601 25811 32422 33163

137 639 688 7182 8169 10443 22530 24597 29039

159 643 749 16386 17401 24135 28429 33468 33469

107 481 555 7322 13234 19344 23498 26581 31378

249 389 523 3421 10150 17616 19085 20545 32069

395 738 1045 2415 3005 3820 19541 23543 31068

27 293 703 1717 3460 8326 8501 10290 32625

126 247 515 6031 9549 10643 22067 29490 34450

331 471 1007 3020 3922 7580 23358 28620 30946

222 542 1021 3291 3652 13130 16349 33009 34348

532 719 1038 5891 7528 23252 25472 31395 31774

145 398 774 7816 13887 14936 23708 31712 33160

88 536 600 1239 1887 12195 13782 16726 27998

151 269 585 1445 3178 3970 15568 20358 21051

650 819 865 15567 18546 25571 32038 33350 33620

93 469 800 6059 10405 12296 17515 21354 22231

97 206 951 6161 16376 27022 29192 30190 30665

412 549 986 5833 10583 10766 24946 28878 31937

72 604 659 5267 12227 21714 32120 33472 33974

25 902 912 1137 2975 9642 11598 25919 28278

420 976 1055 8473 11512 20198 21662 25443 30119

1 24 932 6426 11899 13217 13935 16548 29737

53 618 988 6280 7267 11676 13575 15532 25787

111 739 809 8133 12717 12741 20253 20608 27850

120 683 943 14496 15162 15440 18660 27543 32404

600 754 1055 7873 9679 17351 27268 33508

344 756 1054 7102 7193 22903 24720 27883

582 1003 1046 11344 23756 27497 27977 32853

28 429 509 11106 11767 12729 13100 31792

131 555 907 5113 10259 10300 20580 23029

406 915 977 12244 20259 26616 27899 32228

46 195 224 1229 4116 10263 13608 17830

19 819 953 7965 9998 13959 30580 30754

164 1003 1032 12920 15975 16582 22624 27357

8433 11894 13531 17675 25889 31384

3166 3813 8596 10368 25104 29584

2466 8241 12424 13376 24837 32711.

A fifth data processing device/method according to the present technology is a data processing device/method including: an encoding unit/step configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 8/15; a group-wise interleaving unit/step configured to perform group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unit/step configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

75, 83, 11, 24, 86, 104, 156, 76, 37, 173, 127, 61, 43, 139, 106, 69, 49, 2, 128, 140, 68, 14, 100, 8, 36, 73, 148, 65, 16, 47, 177, 6, 132, 45, 5, 30, 13, 22, 29, 27, 101, 150, 23, 90, 41, 93, 89, 92, 135, 4, 71, 87, 44, 124, 26, 64, 1, 129, 157, 130, 107, 18, 91, 118, 3, 82, 144, 113, 121, 54, 84, 97, 122, 120, 7, 154, 56, 134, 57, 161, 33, 116, 28, 96, 72, 172, 12, 115, 38, 164, 32, 167, 145, 17, 88, 39, 151, 80, 0, 136, 169, 142, 74, 147, 126, 166, 163, 40, 110, 171, 50, 160, 131, 70, 175, 103, 125, 77, 162, 31, 85, 66, 67, 52, 108, 159, 133, 42, 153, 21, 51, 119, 123, 98, 35, 48, 111, 149, 25, 58, 60, 158, 102, 59, 117, 20, 141, 143, 46, 53, 155, 15, 165, 152, 112, 176, 105, 178, 99, 174, 168, 114, 179, 78, 10, 19, 62, 63, 170, 138, 34, 109, 9, 146, 95, 94, 55, 137, 81, and 79.

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

2768 3039 4059 5856 6245 7013 8157 9341 9802 10470 11521 12083 16610 18361 20321 24601 27420 28206 29788

2739 8244 8891 9157 12624 12973 15534 16622 16919 18402 18780 19854 20220 20543 22306 25540 27478 27678 28053

1727 2268 6246 7815 9010 9556 10134 10472 11389 14599 15719 16204 17342 17666 18850 22058 25579 25860 29207

28 1346 3721 5565 7019 9240 12355 13109 14800 16040 16839 17369 17631 19357 19473 19891 20381 23911 29683

869 2450 4386 5316 6160 7107 10362 11132 11271 13149 16397 16532 17113 19894 22043 22784 27383 28615 28804

508 4292 5831 8559 10044 10412 11283 14810 15888 17243 17538 19903 20528 22090 22652 27235 27384 28208 28485

389 2248 5840 6043 7000 9054 11075 11760 12217 12565 13587 15403 19422 19528 21493 25142 27777 28566 28702

1015 2002 5764 6777 9346 9629 11039 11153 12690 13068 13990 16841 17702 20021 24106 26300 29332 30081 30196

1480 3084 3467 4401 4798 5187 7851 11368 12323 14325 14546 16360 17158 18010 21333 25612 26556 26906 27005

6925 8876 12392 14529 15253 15437 19226 19950 20321 23021 23651 24393 24653 26668 27205 28269 28529 29041 29292

2547 3404 3538 4666 5126 5468 7695 8799 14732 15072 15881 17410 18971 19609 19717 22150 24941 27908 29018

888 1581 2311 5511 7218 9107 10454 12252 13662 15714 15894 17025 18671 24304 25316 25556 28489 28977 29212

1047 1494 1718 4645 5030 6811 7868 8146 10611 15767 17682 18391 22614 23021 23763 25478 26491 29088 29757

59 1781 1900 3814 4121 8044 8906 9175 11156 14841 15789 16033 16755 17292 18550 19310 22505 29567 29850

1952 3057 4399 9476 10171 10769 11335 11569 15002 19501 20621 22642 23452 24360 25109 25290 25828 28505 29122

2895 3070 3437 4764 4905 6670 9244 11845 13352 13573 13975 14600 15871 17996 19672 20079 20579 25327 27958

612 1528 2004 4244 4599 4926 5843 7684 10122 10443 12267 14368 18413 19058 22985 24257 26202 26596 27899

1361 2195 4146 6708 7158 7538 9138 9998 14862 15359 16076 18925 21401 21573 22503 24146 24247 27778 29312

5229 6235 7134 7655 9139 13527 15408 16058 16705 18320 19909 20901 22238 22437 23654 25131 27550 28247 29903

697 2035 4887 5275 6909 9166 11805 15338 16381 18403 20425 20688 21547 24590 25171 26726 28848 29224 29412

5379 17329 22659 23062

11814 14759 22329 22936

2423 2811 10296 12727

8460 15260 16769 17290

14191 14608 29536 30187

7103 10069 20111 22850

4285 15413 26448 29069

548 2137 9189 10928

4581 7077 23382 23949

3942 17248 19486 27922

8668 10230 16922 26678

6158 9980 13788 28198

12422 16076 24206 29887

8778 10649 18747 22111

21029 22677 27150 28980

7918 15423 27672 27803

5927 18086 23525

3397 15058 30224

24016 25880 26268

1096 4775 7912

3259 17301 20802

129 8396 15132

17825 28119 28676

2343 8382 28840

3907 18374 20939

1132 1290 8786

1481 4710 28846

2185 3705 26834

5496 15681 21854

12697 13407 22178

12788 21227 22894

629 2854 6232

2289 18227 27458

7593 21935 23001

3836 7081 12282

7925 18440 23135

497 6342 9717

11199 22046 30067

12572 28045 28990

1240 2023 10933

19566 20629 25186

6442 13303 28813

4765 10572 16180

552 19301 24286

6782 18480 21383

11267 12288 15758

771 5652 15531

16131 20047 25649

13227 23035 24450

4839 13467 27488

2852 4677 22993

2504 28116 29524

12518 17374 24267

1222 11859 27922

9660 17286 18261

232 11296 29978

9750 11165 16295

4894 9505 23622

10861 11980 14110

2128 15883 22836

6274 17243 21989

10866 13202 22517

11159 16111 21608

3719 18787 22100

1756 2020 23901

20913 29473 30103

2729 15091 26976

4410 8217 12963

5395 24564 28235

3859 17909 23051

5733 26005 29797

1935 3492 29773

11903 21380 29914

6091 10469 29997

2895 8930 15594

1827 10028 20070.

In the fifth data processing device/method according to the present technology, LDPC encoding is performed based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 8/15. Group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits is performed. The LDPC code is mapped to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

75, 83, 11, 24, 86, 104, 156, 76, 37, 173, 127, 61, 43, 139, 106, 69, 49, 2, 128, 140, 68, 14, 100, 8, 36, 73, 148, 65, 16, 47, 177, 6, 132, 45, 5, 30, 13, 22, 29, 27, 101, 150, 23, 90, 41, 93, 89, 92, 135, 4, 71, 87, 44, 124, 26, 64, 1, 129, 157, 130, 107, 18, 91, 118, 3, 82, 144, 113, 121, 54, 84, 97, 122, 120, 7, 154, 56, 134, 57, 161, 33, 116, 28, 96, 72, 172, 12, 115, 38, 164, 32, 167, 145, 17, 88, 39, 151, 80, 0, 136, 169, 142, 74, 147, 126, 166, 163, 40, 110, 171, 50, 160, 131, 70, 175, 103, 125, 77, 162, 31, 85, 66, 67, 52, 108, 159, 133, 42, 153, 21, 51, 119, 123, 98, 35, 48, 111, 149, 25, 58, 60, 158, 102, 59, 117, 20, 141, 143, 46, 53, 155, 15, 165, 152, 112, 176, 105, 178, 99, 174, 168, 114, 179, 78, 10, 19, 62, 63, 170, 138, 34, 109, 9, 146, 95, 94, 55, 137, 81, and 79.

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

2768 3039 4059 5856 6245 7013 8157 9341 9802 10470 11521 12083 16610 18361 20321 24601 27420 28206 29788

2739 8244 8891 9157 12624 12973 15534 16622 16919 18402 18780 19854 20220 20543 22306 25540 27478 27678 28053

1727 2268 6246 7815 9010 9556 10134 10472 11389 14599 15719 16204 17342 17666 18850 22058 25579 25860 29207

28 1346 3721 5565 7019 9240 12355 13109 14800 16040 16839 17369 17631 19357 19473 19891 20381 23911 29683

869 2450 4386 5316 6160 7107 10362 11132 11271 13149 16397 16532 17113 19894 22043 22784 27383 28615 28804

508 4292 5831 8559 10044 10412 11283 14810 15888 17243 17538 19903 20528 22090 22652 27235 27384 28208 28485

389 2248 5840 6043 7000 9054 11075 11760 12217 12565 13587 15403 19422 19528 21493 25142 27777 28566 28702

1015 2002 5764 6777 9346 9629 11039 11153 12690 13068 13990 16841 17702 20021 24106 26300 29332 30081 30196

1480 3084 3467 4401 4798 5187 7851 11368 12323 14325 14546 16360 17158 18010 21333 25612 26556 26906 27005

6925 8876 12392 14529 15253 15437 19226 19950 20321 23021 23651 24393 24653 26668 27205 28269 28529 29041 29292

2547 3404 3538 4666 5126 5468 7695 8799 14732 15072 15881 17410 18971 19609 19717 22150 24941 27908 29018

888 1581 2311 5511 7218 9107 10454 12252 13662 15714 15894 17025 18671 24304 25316 25556 28489 28977 29212

1047 1494 1718 4645 5030 6811 7868 8146 10611 15767 17682 18391 22614 23021 23763 25478 26491 29088 29757

59 1781 1900 3814 4121 8044 8906 9175 11156 14841 15789 16033 16755 17292 18550 19310 22505 29567 29850

1952 3057 4399 9476 10171 10769 11335 11569 15002 19501 20621 22642 23452 24360 25109 25290 25828 28505 29122

2895 3070 3437 4764 4905 6670 9244 11845 13352 13573 13975 14600 15871 17996 19672 20079 20579 25327 27958

612 1528 2004 4244 4599 4926 5843 7684 10122 10443 12267 14368 18413 19058 22985 24257 26202 26596 27899

1361 2195 4146 6708 7158 7538 9138 9998 14862 15359 16076 18925 21401 21573 22503 24146 24247 27778 29312

5229 6235 7134 7655 9139 13527 15408 16058 16705 18320 19909 20901 22238 22437 23654 25131 27550 28247 29903

697 2035 4887 5275 6909 9166 11805 15338 16381 18403 20425 20688 21547 24590 25171 26726 28848 29224 29412

5379 17329 22659 23062

11814 14759 22329 22936

2423 2811 10296 12727

8460 15260 16769 17290

14191 14608 29536 30187

7103 10069 20111 22850

4285 15413 26448 29069

548 2137 9189 10928

4581 7077 23382 23949

3942 17248 19486 27922

8668 10230 16922 26678

6158 9980 13788 28198

12422 16076 24206 29887

8778 10649 18747 22111

21029 22677 27150 28980

7918 15423 27672 27803

5927 18086 23525

3397 15058 30224

24016 25880 26268

1096 4775 7912

3259 17301 20802

129 8396 15132

17825 28119 28676

2343 8382 28840

3907 18374 20939

1132 1290 8786

1481 4710 28846

2185 3705 26834

5496 15681 21854

12697 13407 22178

12788 21227 22894

629 2854 6232

2289 18227 27458

7593 21935 23001

3836 7081 12282

7925 18440 23135

497 6342 9717

11199 22046 30067

12572 28045 28990

1240 2023 10933

19566 20629 25186

6442 13303 28813

4765 10572 16180

552 19301 24286

6782 18480 21383

11267 12288 15758

771 5652 15531

16131 20047 25649

13227 23035 24450

4839 13467 27488

2852 4677 22993

2504 28116 29524

12518 17374 24267

1222 11859 27922

9660 17286 18261

232 11296 29978

9750 11165 16295

4894 9505 23622

10861 11980 14110

2128 15883 22836

6274 17243 21989

10866 13202 22517

11159 16111 21608

3719 18787 22100

1756 2020 23901

20913 29473 30103

2729 15091 26976

4410 8217 12963

5395 24564 28235

3859 17909 23051

5733 26005 29797

1935 3492 29773

11903 21380 29914

6091 10469 29997

2895 8930 15594

1827 10028 20070.

A sixth data processing device/method according to the present technology is a data processing device/method including: a group-wise deinterleaving unit/step configured to restore a sequence of an LDPC code that has undergone group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device to an original sequence, the transmitting device including an encoding unit configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 8/15, a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform the group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

75, 83, 11, 24, 86, 104, 156, 76, 37, 173, 127, 61, 43, 139, 106, 69, 49, 2, 128, 140, 68, 14, 100, 8, 36, 73, 148, 65, 16, 47, 177, 6, 132, 45, 5, 30, 13, 22, 29, 27, 101, 150, 23, 90, 41, 93, 89, 92, 135, 4, 71, 87, 44, 124, 26, 64, 1, 129, 157, 130, 107, 18, 91, 118, 3, 82, 144, 113, 121, 54, 84, 97, 122, 120, 7, 154, 56, 134, 57, 161, 33, 116, 28, 96, 72, 172, 12, 115, 38, 164, 32, 167, 145, 17, 88, 39, 151, 80, 0, 136, 169, 142, 74, 147, 126, 166, 163, 40, 110, 171, 50, 160, 131, 70, 175, 103, 125, 77, 162, 31, 85, 66, 67, 52, 108, 159, 133, 42, 153, 21, 51, 119, 123, 98, 35, 48, 111, 149, 25, 58, 60, 158, 102, 59, 117, 20, 141, 143, 46, 53, 155, 15, 165, 152, 112, 176, 105, 178, 99, 174, 168, 114, 179, 78, 10, 19, 62, 63, 170, 138, 34, 109, 9, 146, 95, 94, 55, 137, 81, and 79,

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

2768 3039 4059 5856 6245 7013 8157 9341 9802 10470 11521 12083 16610 18361 20321 24601 27420 28206 29788

2739 8244 8891 9157 12624 12973 15534 16622 16919 18402 18780 19854 20220 20543 22306 25540 27478 27678 28053

1727 2268 6246 7815 9010 9556 10134 10472 11389 14599 15719 16204 17342 17666 18850 22058 25579 25860 29207

28 1346 3721 5565 7019 9240 12355 13109 14800 16040 16839 17369 17631 19357 19473 19891 20381 23911 29683

869 2450 4386 5316 6160 7107 10362 11132 11271 13149 16397 16532 17113 19894 22043 22784 27383 28615 28804

508 4292 5831 8559 10044 10412 11283 14810 15888 17243 17538 19903 20528 22090 22652 27235 27384 28208 28485

389 2248 5840 6043 7000 9054 11075 11760 12217 12565 13587 15403 19422 19528 21493 25142 27777 28566 28702

1015 2002 5764 6777 9346 9629 11039 11153 12690 13068 13990 16841 17702 20021 24106 26300 29332 30081 30196

1480 3084 3467 4401 4798 5187 7851 11368 12323 14325 14546 16360 17158 18010 21333 25612 26556 26906 27005

6925 8876 12392 14529 15253 15437 19226 19950 20321 23021 23651 24393 24653 26668 27205 28269 28529 29041 29292

2547 3404 3538 4666 5126 5468 7695 8799 14732 15072 15881 17410 18971 19609 19717 22150 24941 27908 29018

888 1581 2311 5511 7218 9107 10454 12252 13662 15714 15894 17025 18671 24304 25316 25556 28489 28977 29212

1047 1494 1718 4645 5030 6811 7868 8146 10611 15767 17682 18391 22614 23021 23763 25478 26491 29088 29757

59 1781 1900 3814 4121 8044 8906 9175 11156 14841 15789 16033 16755 17292 18550 19310 22505 29567 29850

1952 3057 4399 9476 10171 10769 11335 11569 15002 19501 20621 22642 23452 24360 25109 25290 25828 28505 29122

2895 3070 3437 4764 4905 6670 9244 11845 13352 13573 13975 14600 15871 17996 19672 20079 20579 25327 27958

612 1528 2004 4244 4599 4926 5843 7684 10122 10443 12267 14368 18413 19058 22985 24257 26202 26596 27899

1361 2195 4146 6708 7158 7538 9138 9998 14862 15359 16076 18925 21401 21573 22503 24146 24247 27778 29312

5229 6235 7134 7655 9139 13527 15408 16058 16705 18320 19909 20901 22238 22437 23654 25131 27550 28247 29903

697 2035 4887 5275 6909 9166 11805 15338 16381 18403 20425 20688 21547 24590 25171 26726 28848 29224 29412

5379 17329 22659 23062

11814 14759 22329 22936

2423 2811 10296 12727

8460 15260 16769 17290

14191 14608 29536 30187

7103 10069 20111 22850

4285 15413 26448 29069

548 2137 9189 10928

4581 7077 23382 23949

3942 17248 19486 27922

8668 10230 16922 26678

6158 9980 13788 28198

12422 16076 24206 29887

8778 10649 18747 22111

21029 22677 27150 28980

7918 15423 27672 27803

5927 18086 23525

3397 15058 30224

24016 25880 26268

1096 4775 7912

3259 17301 20802

129 8396 15132

17825 28119 28676

2343 8382 28840

3907 18374 20939

1132 1290 8786

1481 4710 28846

2185 3705 26834

5496 15681 21854

12697 13407 22178

12788 21227 22894

629 2854 6232

2289 18227 27458

7593 21935 23001

3836 7081 12282

7925 18440 23135

497 6342 9717

11199 22046 30067

12572 28045 28990

1240 2023 10933

19566 20629 25186

6442 13303 28813

4765 10572 16180

552 19301 24286

6782 18480 21383

11267 12288 15758

771 5652 15531

16131 20047 25649

13227 23035 24450

4839 13467 27488

2852 4677 22993

2504 28116 29524

12518 17374 24267

1222 11859 27922

9660 17286 18261

232 11296 29978

9750 11165 16295

4894 9505 23622

10861 11980 14110

2128 15883 22836

6274 17243 21989

10866 13202 22517

11159 16111 21608

3719 18787 22100

1756 2020 23901

20913 29473 30103

2729 15091 26976

4410 8217 12963

5395 24564 28235

3859 17909 23051

5733 26005 29797

1935 3492 29773

11903 21380 29914

6091 10469 29997

2895 8930 15594

1827 10028 20070.

In the sixth data processing device/method according to the present technology, a sequence of an LDPC code that has undergone group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device is restored to an original sequence, the transmitting device including an encoding unit configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 8/15, a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform the group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

75, 83, 11, 24, 86, 104, 156, 76, 37, 173, 127, 61, 43, 139, 106, 69, 49, 2, 128, 140, 68, 14, 100, 8, 36, 73, 148, 65, 16, 47, 177, 6, 132, 45, 5, 30, 13, 22, 29, 27, 101, 150, 23, 90, 41, 93, 89, 92, 135, 4, 71, 87, 44, 124, 26, 64, 1, 129, 157, 130, 107, 18, 91, 118, 3, 82, 144, 113, 121, 54, 84, 97, 122, 120, 7, 154, 56, 134, 57, 161, 33, 116, 28, 96, 72, 172, 12, 115, 38, 164, 32, 167, 145, 17, 88, 39, 151, 80, 0, 136, 169, 142, 74, 147, 126, 166, 163, 40, 110, 171, 50, 160, 131, 70, 175, 103, 125, 77, 162, 31, 85, 66, 67, 52, 108, 159, 133, 42, 153, 21, 51, 119, 123, 98, 35, 48, 111, 149, 25, 58, 60, 158, 102, 59, 117, 20, 141, 143, 46, 53, 155, 15, 165, 152, 112, 176, 105, 178, 99, 174, 168, 114, 179, 78, 10, 19, 62, 63, 170, 138, 34, 109, 9, 146, 95, 94, 55, 137, 81, and 79,

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

2768 3039 4059 5856 6245 7013 8157 9341 9802 10470 11521 12083 16610 18361 20321 24601 27420 28206 29788

2739 8244 8891 9157 12624 12973 15534 16622 16919 18402 18780 19854 20220 20543 22306 25540 27478 27678 28053

1727 2268 6246 7815 9010 9556 10134 10472 11389 14599 15719 16204 17342 17666 18850 22058 25579 25860 29207

28 1346 3721 5565 7019 9240 12355 13109 14800 16040 16839 17369 17631 19357 19473 19891 20381 23911 29683

869 2450 4386 5316 6160 7107 10362 11132 11271 13149 16397 16532 17113 19894 22043 22784 27383 28615 28804

508 4292 5831 8559 10044 10412 11283 14810 15888 17243 17538 19903 20528 22090 22652 27235 27384 28208 28485

389 2248 5840 6043 7000 9054 11075 11760 12217 12565 13587 15403 19422 19528 21493 25142 27777 28566 28702

1015 2002 5764 6777 9346 9629 11039 11153 12690 13068 13990 16841 17702 20021 24106 26300 29332 30081 30196

1480 3084 3467 4401 4798 5187 7851 11368 12323 14325 14546 16360 17158 18010 21333 25612 26556 26906 27005

6925 8876 12392 14529 15253 15437 19226 19950 20321 23021 23651 24393 24653 26668 27205 28269 28529 29041 29292

2547 3404 3538 4666 5126 5468 7695 8799 14732 15072 15881 17410 18971 19609 19717 22150 24941 27908 29018

888 1581 2311 5511 7218 9107 10454 12252 13662 15714 15894 17025 18671 24304 25316 25556 28489 28977 29212

1047 1494 1718 4645 5030 6811 7868 8146 10611 15767 17682 18391 22614 23021 23763 25478 26491 29088 29757

59 1781 1900 3814 4121 8044 8906 9175 11156 14841 15789 16033 16755 17292 18550 19310 22505 29567 29850

1952 3057 4399 9476 10171 10769 11335 11569 15002 19501 20621 22642 23452 24360 25109 25290 25828 28505 29122

2895 3070 3437 4764 4905 6670 9244 11845 13352 13573 13975 14600 15871 17996 19672 20079 20579 25327 27958

612 1528 2004 4244 4599 4926 5843 7684 10122 10443 12267 14368 18413 19058 22985 24257 26202 26596 27899

1361 2195 4146 6708 7158 7538 9138 9998 14862 15359 16076 18925 21401 21573 22503 24146 24247 27778 29312

5229 6235 7134 7655 9139 13527 15408 16058 16705 18320 19909 20901 22238 22437 23654 25131 27550 28247 29903

697 2035 4887 5275 6909 9166 11805 15338 16381 18403 20425 20688 21547 24590 25171 26726 28848 29224 29412

5379 17329 22659 23062

11814 14759 22329 22936

2423 2811 10296 12727

8460 15260 16769 17290

14191 14608 29536 30187

7103 10069 20111 22850

4285 15413 26448 29069

548 2137 9189 10928

4581 7077 23382 23949

3942 17248 19486 27922

8668 10230 16922 26678

6158 9980 13788 28198

12422 16076 24206 29887

8778 10649 18747 22111

21029 22677 27150 28980

7918 15423 27672 27803

5927 18086 23525

3397 15058 30224

24016 25880 26268

1096 4775 7912

3259 17301 20802

129 8396 15132

17825 28119 28676

2343 8382 28840

3907 18374 20939

1132 1290 8786

1481 4710 28846

2185 3705 26834

5496 15681 21854

12697 13407 22178

12788 21227 22894

629 2854 6232

2289 18227 27458

7593 21935 23001

3836 7081 12282

7925 18440 23135

497 6342 9717

11199 22046 30067

12572 28045 28990

1240 2023 10933

19566 20629 25186

6442 13303 28813

4765 10572 16180

552 19301 24286

6782 18480 21383

11267 12288 15758

771 5652 15531

16131 20047 25649

13227 23035 24450

4839 13467 27488

2852 4677 22993

2504 28116 29524

12518 17374 24267

1222 11859 27922

9660 17286 18261

232 11296 29978

9750 11165 16295

4894 9505 23622

10861 11980 14110

2128 15883 22836

6274 17243 21989

10866 13202 22517

11159 16111 21608

3719 18787 22100

1756 2020 23901

20913 29473 30103

2729 15091 26976

4410 8217 12963

5395 24564 28235

3859 17909 23051

5733 26005 29797

1935 3492 29773

11903 21380 29914

6091 10469 29997

2895 8930 15594

1827 10028 20070.

A seventh data processing device/method according to the present technology is a data processing device/method including: an encoding unit/step configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 9/15; a group-wise interleaving unit/step configured to perform group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and a mapping unit/step configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

98, 159, 59, 125, 163, 89, 26, 4, 102, 70, 92, 36, 37, 142, 176, 95, 71, 19, 87, 45, 81, 47, 65, 170, 103, 48, 67, 61, 64, 35, 76, 80, 140, 77, 10, 167, 178, 155, 120, 156, 151, 12, 58, 5, 83, 137, 41, 109, 2, 66, 133, 62, 135, 28, 93, 128, 86, 57, 153, 161, 110, 52, 147, 141, 31, 79, 32, 88, 160, 84, 150, 6, 100, 73, 126, 164, 17, 42, 101, 7, 55, 105, 91, 22, 130, 154, 1, 82, 14, 0, 9, 21, 50, 165, 72, 138, 175, 106, 108, 3, 169, 30, 157, 54, 18, 20, 44, 34, 134, 107, 56, 53, 15, 162, 38, 166, 24, 33, 60, 85, 145, 115, 43, 39, 40, 124, 149, 144, 132, 96, 11, 146, 90, 129, 119, 111, 171, 8, 152, 121, 173, 131, 49, 27, 118, 16, 148, 68, 177, 94, 179, 13, 114, 75, 51, 117, 25, 46, 136, 143, 139, 113, 127, 174, 74, 29, 122, 158, 69, 97, 78, 63, 99, 112, 104, 116, 172, 168, 23, and 123.

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

113 1557 3316 5680 6241 10407 13404 13947 14040 14353 15522 15698 16079 17363 19374 19543 20530 22833 24339

271 1361 6236 7006 7307 7333 12768 15441 15568 17923 18341 20321 21502 22023 23938 25351 25590 25876 25910

73 605 872 4008 6279 7653 10346 10799 12482 12935 13604 15909 16526 19782 20506 22804 23629 24859 25600

1445 1690 4304 4851 8919 9176 9252 13783 16076 16675 17274 18806 18882 20819 21958 22451 23869 23999 24177

1290 2337 5661 6371 8996 10102 10941 11360 12242 14918 16808 20571 23374 24046 25045 25060 25662 25783 25913

28 42 1926 3421 3503 8558 9453 10168 15820 17473 19571 19685 22790 23336 23367 23890 24061 25657 25680

0 1709 4041 4932 5968 7123 8430 9564 10596 11026 14761 19484 20762 20858 23803 24016 24795 25853 25863

29 1625 6500 6609 16831 18517 18568 18738 19387 20159 20544 21603 21941 24137 24269 24416 24803 25154 25395

55 66 871 3700 11426 13221 15001 16367 17601 18380 22796 23488 23938 25476 25635 25678 25807 25857 25872

1 19 5958 8548 8860 11489 16845 18450 18469 19496 20190 23173 25262 25566 25668 25679 25858 25888 25915

7520 7690 8855 9183 14654 16695 17121 17854 18083 18428 19633 20470 20736 21720 22335 23273 25083 25293 25403

48 58 410 1299 3786 10668 18523 18963 20864 22106 22308 23033 23107 23128 23990 24286 24409 24595 25802

12 51 3894 6539 8276 10885 11644 12777 13427 14039 15954 17078 19053 20537 22863 24521 25087 25463 25838

3509 8748 9581 11509 15884 16230 17583 19264 20900 21001 21310 22547 22756 22959 24768 24814 25594 25626 25880

21 29 69 1448 2386 4601 6626 6667 10242 13141 13852 14137 18640 19951 22449 23454 24431 25512 25814

18 53 7890 9934 10063 16728 19040 19809 20825 21522 21800 23582 24556 25031 25547 25562 25733 25789 25906

4096 4582 5766 5894 6517 10027 12182 13247 15207 17041 18958 20133 20503 22228 24332 24613 25689 25855 25883

0 25 819 5539 7076 7536 7695 9532 13668 15051 17683 19665 20253 21996 24136 24890 25758 25784 25807

34 40 44 4215 6076 7427 7965 8777 11017 15593 19542 22202 22973 23397 23423 24418 24873 25107 25644

1595 6216 22850 25439

1562 15172 19517 22362

7508 12879 24324 24496

6298 15819 16757 18721

11173 15175 19966 21195

59 13505 16941 23793

2267 4830 12023 20587

8827 9278 13072 16664

14419 17463 23398 25348

6112 16534 20423 22698

493 8914 21103 24799

6896 12761 13206 25873

2 1380 12322 21701

11600 21306 25753 25790

8421 13076 14271 15401

9630 14112 19017 20955

212 13932 21781 25824

5961 9110 16654 19636

58 5434 9936 12770

6575 11433 19798

2731 7338 20926

14253 18463 25404

21791 24805 25869

2 11646 15850

6075 8586 23819

18435 22093 24852

2103 2368 11704

10925 17402 18232

9062 25061 25674

18497 20853 23404

18606 19364 19551

7 1022 25543

6744 15481 25868

9081 17305 25164

8 23701 25883

9680 19955 22848

56 4564 19121

5595 15086 25892

3174 17127 23183

19397 19817 20275

12561 24571 25825

7111 9889 25865

19104 20189 21851

549 9686 25548

6586 20325 25906

3224 20710 21637

641 15215 25754

13484 23729 25818

2043 7493 24246

16860 25230 25768

22047 24200 24902

9391 18040 19499

7855 24336 25069

23834 25570 25852

1977 8800 25756

6671 21772 25859

3279 6710 24444

24099 25117 25820

5553 12306 25915

48 11107 23907

10832 11974 25773

2223 17905 25484

16782 17135 20446

475 2861 3457

16218 22449 24362

11716 22200 25897

8315 15009 22633

13 20480 25852

12352 18658 25687

3681 14794 23703

30 24531 25846

4103 22077 24107

23837 25622 25812

3627 13387 25839

908 5367 19388

0 6894 25795

20322 23546 25181

8178 25260 25437

2449 13244 22565

31 18928 22741

1312 5134 14838

6085 13937 24220

66 14633 25670

47 22512 25472

8867 24704 25279

6742 21623 22745

147 9948 24178

8522 24261 24307

19202 22406 24609.

In the seventh data processing device/method according to the present technology, LDPC encoding is performed based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 9/15. Group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits is performed. The LDPC code is mapped to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

98, 159, 59, 125, 163, 89, 26, 4, 102, 70, 92, 36, 37, 142, 176, 95, 71, 19, 87, 45, 81, 47, 65, 170, 103, 48, 67, 61, 64, 35, 76, 80, 140, 77, 10, 167, 178, 155, 120, 156, 151, 12, 58, 5, 83, 137, 41, 109, 2, 66, 133, 62, 135, 28, 93, 128, 86, 57, 153, 161, 110, 52, 147, 141, 31, 79, 32, 88, 160, 84, 150, 6, 100, 73, 126, 164, 17, 42, 101, 7, 55, 105, 91, 22, 130, 154, 1, 82, 14, 0, 9, 21, 50, 165, 72, 138, 175, 106, 108, 3, 169, 30, 157, 54, 18, 20, 44, 34, 134, 107, 56, 53, 15, 162, 38, 166, 24, 33, 60, 85, 145, 115, 43, 39, 40, 124, 149, 144, 132, 96, 11, 146, 90, 129, 119, 111, 171, 8, 152, 121, 173, 131, 49, 27, 118, 16, 148, 68, 177, 94, 179, 13, 114, 75, 51, 117, 25, 46, 136, 143, 139, 113, 127, 174, 74, 29, 122, 158, 69, 97, 78, 63, 99, 112, 104, 116, 172, 168, 23, and 123.

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

113 1557 3316 5680 6241 10407 13404 13947 14040 14353 15522 15698 16079 17363 19374 19543 20530 22833 24339

271 1361 6236 7006 7307 7333 12768 15441 15568 17923 18341 20321 21502 22023 23938 25351 25590 25876 25910

73 605 872 4008 6279 7653 10346 10799 12482 12935 13604 15909 16526 19782 20506 22804 23629 24859 25600

1445 1690 4304 4851 8919 9176 9252 13783 16076 16675 17274 18806 18882 20819 21958 22451 23869 23999 24177

1290 2337 5661 6371 8996 10102 10941 11360 12242 14918 16808 20571 23374 24046 25045 25060 25662 25783 25913

28 42 1926 3421 3503 8558 9453 10168 15820 17473 19571 19685 22790 23336 23367 23890 24061 25657 25680

0 1709 4041 4932 5968 7123 8430 9564 10596 11026 14761 19484 20762 20858 23803 24016 24795 25853 25863

29 1625 6500 6609 16831 18517 18568 18738 19387 20159 20544 21603 21941 24137 24269 24416 24803 25154 25395

55 66 871 3700 11426 13221 15001 16367 17601 18380 22796 23488 23938 25476 25635 25678 25807 25857 25872

1 19 5958 8548 8860 11489 16845 18450 18469 19496 20190 23173 25262 25566 25668 25679 25858 25888 25915

7520 7690 8855 9183 14654 16695 17121 17854 18083 18428 19633 20470 20736 21720 22335 23273 25083 25293 25403

48 58 410 1299 3786 10668 18523 18963 20864 22106 22308 23033 23107 23128 23990 24286 24409 24595 25802

12 51 3894 6539 8276 10885 11644 12777 13427 14039 15954 17078 19053 20537 22863 24521 25087 25463 25838

3509 8748 9581 11509 15884 16230 17583 19264 20900 21001 21310 22547 22756 22959 24768 24814 25594 25626 25880

21 29 69 1448 2386 4601 6626 6667 10242 13141 13852 14137 18640 19951 22449 23454 24431 25512 25814

18 53 7890 9934 10063 16728 19040 19809 20825 21522 21800 23582 24556 25031 25547 25562 25733 25789 25906

4096 4582 5766 5894 6517 10027 12182 13247 15207 17041 18958 20133 20503 22228 24332 24613 25689 25855 25883

0 25 819 5539 7076 7536 7695 9532 13668 15051 17683 19665 20253 21996 24136 24890 25758 25784 25807

34 40 44 4215 6076 7427 7965 8777 11017 15593 19542 22202 22973 23397 23423 24418 24873 25107 25644

1595 6216 22850 25439

1562 15172 19517 22362

7508 12879 24324 24496

6298 15819 16757 18721

11173 15175 19966 21195

59 13505 16941 23793

2267 4830 12023 20587

8827 9278 13072 16664

14419 17463 23398 25348

6112 16534 20423 22698

493 8914 21103 24799

6896 12761 13206 25873

2 1380 12322 21701

11600 21306 25753 25790

8421 13076 14271 15401

9630 14112 19017 20955

212 13932 21781 25824

5961 9110 16654 19636

58 5434 9936 12770

6575 11433 19798

2731 7338 20926

14253 18463 25404

21791 24805 25869

2 11646 15850

6075 8586 23819

18435 22093 24852

2103 2368 11704

10925 17402 18232

9062 25061 25674

18497 20853 23404

18606 19364 19551

7 1022 25543

6744 15481 25868

9081 17305 25164

8 23701 25883

9680 19955 22848

56 4564 19121

5595 15086 25892

3174 17127 23183

19397 19817 20275

12561 24571 25825

7111 9889 25865

19104 20189 21851

549 9686 25548

6586 20325 25906

3224 20710 21637

641 15215 25754

13484 23729 25818

2043 7493 24246

16860 25230 25768

22047 24200 24902

9391 18040 19499

7855 24336 25069

23834 25570 25852

1977 8800 25756

6671 21772 25859

3279 6710 24444

24099 25117 25820

5553 12306 25915

48 11107 23907

10832 11974 25773

2223 17905 25484

16782 17135 20446

475 2861 3457

16218 22449 24362

11716 22200 25897

8315 15009 22633

13 20480 25852

12352 18658 25687

3681 14794 23703

30 24531 25846

4103 22077 24107

23837 25622 25812

3627 13387 25839

908 5367 19388

0 6894 25795

20322 23546 25181

8178 25260 25437

2449 13244 22565

31 18928 22741

1312 5134 14838

6085 13937 24220

66 14633 25670

47 22512 25472

8867 24704 25279

6742 21623 22745

147 9948 24178

8522 24261 24307

19202 22406 24609.

An eighth data processing device/method according to the present technology is a data processing device/method including: a group-wise deinterleaving unit/step configured to restore a sequence of an LDPC code that has undergone group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device to an original sequence, the transmitting device including an encoding unit configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 9/15, a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform the group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

98, 159, 59, 125, 163, 89, 26, 4, 102, 70, 92, 36, 37, 142, 176, 95, 71, 19, 87, 45, 81, 47, 65, 170, 103, 48, 67, 61, 64, 35, 76, 80, 140, 77, 10, 167, 178, 155, 120, 156, 151, 12, 58, 5, 83, 137, 41, 109, 2, 66, 133, 62, 135, 28, 93, 128, 86, 57, 153, 161, 110, 52, 147, 141, 31, 79, 32, 88, 160, 84, 150, 6, 100, 73, 126, 164, 17, 42, 101, 7, 55, 105, 91, 22, 130, 154, 1, 82, 14, 0, 9, 21, 50, 165, 72, 138, 175, 106, 108, 3, 169, 30, 157, 54, 18, 20, 44, 34, 134, 107, 56, 53, 15, 162, 38, 166, 24, 33, 60, 85, 145, 115, 43, 39, 40, 124, 149, 144, 132, 96, 11, 146, 90, 129, 119, 111, 171, 8, 152, 121, 173, 131, 49, 27, 118, 16, 148, 68, 177, 94, 179, 13, 114, 75, 51, 117, 25, 46, 136, 143, 139, 113, 127, 174, 74, 29, 122, 158, 69, 97, 78, 63, 99, 112, 104, 116, 172, 168, 23, and 123,

The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

113 1557 3316 5680 6241 10407 13404 13947 14040 14353 15522 15698 16079 17363 19374 19543 20530 22833 24339

271 1361 6236 7006 7307 7333 12768 15441 15568 17923 18341 20321 21502 22023 23938 25351 25590 25876 25910

73 605 872 4008 6279 7653 10346 10799 12482 12935 13604 15909 16526 19782 20506 22804 23629 24859 25600

1445 1690 4304 4851 8919 9176 9252 13783 16076 16675 17274 18806 18882 20819 21958 22451 23869 23999 24177

1290 2337 5661 6371 8996 10102 10941 11360 12242 14918 16808 20571 23374 24046 25045 25060 25662 25783 25913

28 42 1926 3421 3503 8558 9453 10168 15820 17473 19571 19685 22790 23336 23367 23890 24061 25657 25680

0 1709 4041 4932 5968 7123 8430 9564 10596 11026 14761 19484 20762 20858 23803 24016 24795 25853 25863

29 1625 6500 6609 16831 18517 18568 18738 19387 20159 20544 21603 21941 24137 24269 24416 24803 25154 25395

55 66 871 3700 11426 13221 15001 16367 17601 18380 22796 23488 23938 25476 25635 25678 25807 25857 25872

1 19 5958 8548 8860 11489 16845 18450 18469 19496 20190 23173 25262 25566 25668 25679 25858 25888 25915

7520 7690 8855 9183 14654 16695 17121 17854 18083 18428 19633 20470 20736 21720 22335 23273 25083 25293 25403

48 58 410 1299 3786 10668 18523 18963 20864 22106 22308 23033 23107 23128 23990 24286 24409 24595 25802

12 51 3894 6539 8276 10885 11644 12777 13427 14039 15954 17078 19053 20537 22863 24521 25087 25463 25838

3509 8748 9581 11509 15884 16230 17583 19264 20900 21001 21310 22547 22756 22959 24768 24814 25594 25626 25880

21 29 69 1448 2386 4601 6626 6667 10242 13141 13852 14137 18640 19951 22449 23454 24431 25512 25814

18 53 7890 9934 10063 16728 19040 19809 20825 21522 21800 23582 24556 25031 25547 25562 25733 25789 25906

4096 4582 5766 5894 6517 10027 12182 13247 15207 17041 18958 20133 20503 22228 24332 24613 25689 25855 25883

0 25 819 5539 7076 7536 7695 9532 13668 15051 17683 19665 20253 21996 24136 24890 25758 25784 25807

34 40 44 4215 6076 7427 7965 8777 11017 15593 19542 22202 22973 23397 23423 24418 24873 25107 25644

1595 6216 22850 25439

1562 15172 19517 22362

7508 12879 24324 24496

6298 15819 16757 18721

11173 15175 19966 21195

59 13505 16941 23793

2267 4830 12023 20587

8827 9278 13072 16664

14419 17463 23398 25348

6112 16534 20423 22698

493 8914 21103 24799

6896 12761 13206 25873

2 1380 12322 21701

11600 21306 25753 25790

8421 13076 14271 15401

9630 14112 19017 20955

212 13932 21781 25824

5961 9110 16654 19636

58 5434 9936 12770

6575 11433 19798

2731 7338 20926

14253 18463 25404

21791 24805 25869

2 11646 15850

6075 8586 23819

18435 22093 24852

2103 2368 11704

10925 17402 18232

9062 25061 25674

18497 20853 23404

18606 19364 19551

7 1022 25543

6744 15481 25868

9081 17305 25164

8 23701 25883

9680 19955 22848

56 4564 19121

5595 15086 25892

3174 17127 23183

19397 19817 20275

12561 24571 25825

7111 9889 25865

19104 20189 21851

549 9686 25548

6586 20325 25906

3224 20710 21637

641 15215 25754

13484 23729 25818

2043 7493 24246

16860 25230 25768

22047 24200 24902

9391 18040 19499

7855 24336 25069

23834 25570 25852

1977 8800 25756

6671 21772 25859

3279 6710 24444

24099 25117 25820

5553 12306 25915

48 11107 23907

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In the eighth data processing device/method according to the present technology, a sequence of an LDPC code that has undergone group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device is restored to an original sequence, the transmitting device including an encoding unit configured to perform LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 9/15, a group-wise interleaving unit configured to perform the group-wise interleave of interleaving the LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits, and a mapping unit configured to map the LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits. In the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

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The LDPC code includes an information bit and a parity bit. The parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table. The parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes

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The data processing device may be an independent device and may be an internal block constituting one device.

Advantageous Effects of Invention

According to the present technology, it is possible to secure excellent communication quality in data transmission using the LDPC code.

The effects described herein are not necessarily limited and may include any effect described in the present disclosure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an illustration of a parity check matrix H of an LDPC code.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a decoding sequence of an LDPC code.

FIG. 3 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code.

FIG. 4 is an illustration of an example of a Tanner graph of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 5 is an illustration of an example of a variable node.

FIG. 6 is an illustration of an example of a check node.

FIG. 7 is an illustration of a configuration example of an embodiment of a transmission system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a transmitting device 11.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a bit interleaver 116.

FIG. 10 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 11 is an illustration of an example of a parity matrix.

FIG. 12 is an illustration of the parity check matrix of the LDPC code that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2.

FIG. 13 is an illustration of the parity check matrix of the LDPC code that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2.

FIG. 14 is an illustration of an example of a Tanner graph for decoding of an LDPC code.

FIG. 15 is an illustration of an example of a parity matrix H_(T) becoming a staircase structure and a Tanner graph corresponding to the parity matrix H_(T).

FIG. 16 is an illustration of an example of a parity matrix H_(T) of a parity check matrix H corresponding to an LDPC code after parity interleave.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process performed by a bit interleaver 116 and a mapper 117.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of an LDPC encoder 115.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart illustrating processing of an example of an LDPC encoder 115.

FIG. 20 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table in which an encoding rate is 1/4 and a code length is 16200.

FIG. 21 is an illustration of a method of calculating a parity check matrix H from a parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 22 is an illustration of a structure of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 23 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 24 is an illustration of an A matrix generated from a parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 25 is an illustration of parity interleave of a B matrix.

FIG. 26 is an illustration of a C matrix generated from a parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 27 is an illustration of parity interleave of a D matrix.

FIG. 28 is an illustration of a parity check matrix obtained by performing a column permutation serving as parity deinterleave for restoring parity interleave to an original state on a parity check matrix.

FIG. 29 is an illustration of a transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing a row permutation on a parity check matrix.

FIG. 30 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 31 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 32 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 33 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 34 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 35 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 36 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 37 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 38 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 39 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 40 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 41 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 42 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 43 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 44 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 45 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 46 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 47 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 48 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 49 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 50 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 51 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 52 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 53 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 54 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 55 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 56 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 57 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 58 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 59 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 60 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 61 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 62 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 63 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 64 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 65 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 66 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 67 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 68 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 69 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 70 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 71 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 72 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table.

FIG. 73 is an illustration of an example of a tanner graph of an ensemble of a degree sequence in which a column weight is 3, and a row weight is 6.

FIG. 74 is an illustration of an example of a tanner graph of an ensemble of a multi-edge type.

FIG. 75 is an illustration of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 76 is an illustration of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 77 is an illustration of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 78 is an illustration of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 79 is an illustration of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 80 is an illustration of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 81 is an illustration of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 82 is an illustration of a parity check matrix.

FIG. 83 is an illustration of an example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 16QAM.

FIG. 84 is an illustration of an example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 64QAM.

FIG. 85 is an illustration of an example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 256QAM.

FIG. 86 is an illustration of an example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 1024QAM.

FIG. 87 is an illustration of an example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 4096QAM.

FIG. 88 is an illustration of an example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 4096QAM.

FIG. 89 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of a signal point of a UC when a modulation scheme is QPSK.

FIG. 90 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 16QAM.

FIG. 91 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 64QAM.

FIG. 92 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 256QAM.

FIG. 93 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 256QAM.

FIG. 94 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of a signal point of a 1D NUC when a modulation scheme is 1024QAM.

FIG. 95 is an illustration of relations of a symbol y of 1024QAM with a real part Re (z_(q)) and an imaginary part Im (z_(q)) of a complex number serving as coordinates of a signal point z_(q) of a 1D NUC corresponding to the symbol y.

FIG. 96 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of a signal point of a 1D NUC when a modulation scheme is 4096QAM.

FIG. 97 is an illustration of relations of a symbol y of 4096QAM with a real part Re (z_(q)) and an imaginary part Im (z_(q)) of a complex number serving as coordinates of a signal point z_(q) of a 1D NUC corresponding to the symbol y.

FIG. 98 is an illustration of another example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 16QAM.

FIG. 99 is an illustration of another example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 64QAM.

FIG. 100 is an illustration of another example of a constellation when a modulation scheme is 256QAM.

FIG. 101 is an illustration of another example of coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 16QAM.

FIG. 102 is an illustration of another example of coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 64QAM.

FIG. 103 is an illustration of another example of coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 256QAM.

FIG. 104 is an illustration of another example of coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC when a modulation scheme is 256QAM.

FIG. 105 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a block interleaver 25.

FIG. 106 is an illustration of an example of the number C of columns of parts 1 and 2 and part column lengths R1 and R2 for a combination of a code length N and a modulation scheme.

FIG. 107 is an illustration of block interleave performed by a block interleaver 25.

FIG. 108 is an illustration of group-wise interleave performed by a group-wise interleaver 24.

FIG. 109 is an illustration of a 1st example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 110 is an illustration of a 2nd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 111 is an illustration of a 3rd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 112 is an illustration of a 4th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 113 is an illustration of a 5th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 114 is an illustration of a 6th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 115 is an illustration of a 7th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 116 is an illustration of an 8th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 117 is an illustration of a 9th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 118 is an illustration of a 10th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 119 is an illustration of an 11th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 120 is an illustration of a 12th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 121 is an illustration of a 13th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 122 is an illustration of a 14th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 123 is an illustration of a 15th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 124 is an illustration of a 16th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 125 is an illustration of a 17th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 126 is an illustration of an 18th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 127 is an illustration of a 19th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 128 is an illustration of a 20th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 129 is an illustration of a 21st example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 130 is an illustration of a 22nd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 131 is an illustration of a 23rd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 132 is an illustration of a 24th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 133 is an illustration of a 25th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 134 is an illustration of a 26th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 135 is an illustration of a 27th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 136 is an illustration of a 28th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 137 is an illustration of a 29th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 138 is an illustration of a 30th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 139 is an illustration of a 31st example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 140 is an illustration of a 32nd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 141 is an illustration of a 33rd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64 k bits.

FIG. 142 is an illustration of a 1st example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 143 is an illustration of a 2nd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 144 is an illustration of a 3rd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 145 is an illustration of a 4th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 146 is an illustration of a 5th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 147 is an illustration of a 6th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 148 is an illustration of a 7th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 149 is an illustration of an 8th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 150 is an illustration of a 9th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 151 is an illustration of a 10th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 152 is an illustration of an 11th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 153 is an illustration of a 12th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 154 is an illustration of a 13th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 155 is an illustration of a 14th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 156 is an illustration of a 15th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 157 is an illustration of a 16th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

FIG. 158 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 159 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 160 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 161 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 162 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 163 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 164 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 165 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 166 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 167 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 168 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 169 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 170 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 171 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 172 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 173 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 174 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 175 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 176 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 177 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 178 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 179 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 180 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 181 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 182 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 183 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 184 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 185 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 186 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 187 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 188 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 189 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 190 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 191 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 192 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 193 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 194 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 195 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 196 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 197 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 198 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 199 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 200 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 201 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 202 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 203 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 204 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 205 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 206 is an illustration of a simulation result of a simulation of measuring an error rate.

FIG. 207 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a receiving device 12.

FIG. 208 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a bit deinterleaver 165.

FIG. 209 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process performed by a demapper 164, a bit deinterleaver 165, and an LDPC decoder 166.

FIG. 210 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code.

FIG. 211 is an illustration of an example of a matrix (a transformed parity check matrix) obtained by performing a row permutation and a column permutation on a parity check matrix.

FIG. 212 is an illustration of an example of a transformed parity check matrix divided into 5×5 units.

FIG. 213 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a decoding device that collectively performs P node operations.

FIG. 214 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of an LDPC decoder 166.

FIG. 215 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a block deinterleaver 54.

FIG. 216 is a block diagram illustrating another configuration example of a bit deinterleaver 165.

FIG. 217 is a block diagram illustrating a first configuration example of a reception system that can be applied to the receiving device 12.

FIG. 218 is a block diagram illustrating a second configuration example of a reception system that can be applied to the receiving device 12.

FIG. 219 is a block diagram illustrating a third configuration example of a reception system that can be applied to the receiving device 12.

FIG. 220 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of an embodiment of a computer to which the present technology is applied.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present technology will be described, but before the description of the exemplary embodiments of the present technology, an LDPC code will be described.

<LDPC Code>

The LDPC code is a linear code and it is not necessary for the LDPC code to be a binary code. However, in this case, it is assumed that the LDPC code is the binary code.

A maximum characteristic of the LDPC code is that a parity check matrix defining the LDPC code is sparse. In this case, the sparse matrix is a matrix in which the number of “1” of elements of the matrix is very small (a matrix in which most elements are 0).

FIG. 1 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix H of the LDPC code.

In the parity check matrix H of FIG. 1, a weight of each column (the column weight) (the number of “1”) becomes “3” and a weight of each row (the row weight) becomes “6”.

In encoding using the LDPC code (LDPC encoding), for example, a generation matrix G is generated on the basis of the parity check matrix H and the generation matrix G is multiplied by binary information bits, so that a code word (LDPC code) is generated.

Specifically, an encoding device that performs the LDPC encoding first calculates the generation matrix G in which an expression GH^(T)=0 is realized, between a transposed matrix H^(T) of the parity check matrix H and the generation matrix G. In this case, when the generation matrix G is a K×N matrix, the encoding device multiplies the generation matrix G with a bit string (vector u) of information bits including K bits and generates a code word c (=uG) including N bits. The code word (LDPC code) that is generated by the encoding device is received at a reception side through a predetermined communication path.

The LDPC code can be decoded by an algorithm called probabilistic decoding suggested by Gallager, that is, a message passing algorithm using belief propagation on a so-called Tanner graph, including a variable node (also referred to as a message node) and a check node. Hereinafter, the variable node and the check node are appropriately referred to as nodes simply.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a decoding sequence of an LDPC code.

Hereinafter, a real value (a reception LLR) that is obtained by representing the likelihood of “0” of a value of an i-th code bit of the LDPC code (one code word) received by the reception side by a log likelihood ratio is appropriately referred to as a reception value u_(0i). In addition, a message output from the check node is referred to as u_(j) and a message output from the variable node is referred to as v_(i).

First, in decoding of the LDPC code, as illustrated in FIG. 2, in step S11, the LDPC code is received, the message (check node message) u_(j) is initialized to “0”, and a variable k taking an integer as a counter of repetition processing is initialized to “0”, and the processing proceeds to step S12. In step S12, the message (variable node message) v_(i) is calculated by performing an operation (variable node operation) represented by an expression (1), on the basis of the reception value u_(0i) obtained by receiving the LDPC code, and the message u_(j) is calculated by performing an operation (check node operation) represented by an expression (2), on the basis of the message v_(i).

$\begin{matrix} \left\lbrack {{Math}.\mspace{14mu} 1} \right\rbrack & \; \\ {v_{i} = {u_{0\; i} + {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{d_{v} - 1}u_{j}}}} & (1) \\ \left\lbrack {{Math}.\mspace{14mu} 2} \right\rbrack & \; \\ {{\tanh \left( \frac{u_{j}}{2} \right)} = {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}}} & (2) \end{matrix}$

Here, d_(v) and d_(c) in an expression (1) and expression (2) are respectively parameters which can be arbitrarily selected and illustrates the number of “1” in the longitudinal direction (column) and transverse direction (row) of the parity check matrix H. For example, in the case of an LDPC code ((3, 6) LDPC code) with respect to the parity check matrix H with a column weight of 3 and a row weight of 6 as illustrated in FIG. 1, d_(v)=3 and d_(c)=6 are established.

In the variable node operation of the expression (1) and the check node operation of the expression (2), because a message input from an edge (line coupling the variable node and the check node) for outputting the message is not an operation target, an operation range becomes 1 to d_(v)−1 or 1 to d_(c)−1. The check node operation of the expression (2) is performed actually by previously making a table of a function R (v₁, v₂) represented by an expression (3) defined by one output with respect to two inputs v₁ and v₂ and using the table consecutively (recursively), as represented by an expression (4).

[Math. 3]

x=2 tan h ⁻¹{tan h(v ₁/2)tan h(v ₂/2)}=R(v ₁ ,v ₂)  (3)

[Math. 4]

u _(j) =R(v ₁ ,R(v ₂ ,R(v ₃ , . . . R(v _(d) _(o) ⁻² ,v _(d) _(o) ⁻¹))))  (4)

In step S12, the variable k is incremented by “1” and the processing proceeds to step S13. In step S13, it is determined whether the variable k is more than the predetermined repetition decoding number of times C. When it is determined in step S13 that the variable k is not more than C, the processing returns to step S12 and the same processing is repeated hereinafter.

When it is determined in step S13 that the variable k is more than C, the processing proceeds to step S14, the message v_(i) that corresponds to a decoding result to be finally output is calculated by performing an operation represented by an expression (5) and is output, and the decoding processing of the LDPC code ends.

$\begin{matrix} \left\lbrack {{Math}.\mspace{14mu} 5} \right\rbrack & \; \\ {v_{i} = {u_{0\; i} + {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{d_{v}}u_{j}}}} & (5) \end{matrix}$

In this case, the operation of the expression (5) is performed using messages u_(j) from all edges connected to the variable node, different from the variable node operation of the expression (1).

FIG. 3 illustrates an example of the parity check matrix H of the (3, 6) LDPC code (an encoding rate of 1/2 and a code length of 12).

In the parity check matrix H of FIG. 3, a weight of a column is set to 3 and a weight of a row is set to 6, similar to FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 illustrates a Tanner graph of the parity check matrix H of FIG. 3.

In FIG. 4, the check node is represented by “+” (plus) and the variable node is represented by “=” (equal). The check node and the variable node correspond to the row and the column of the parity check matrix H. A line that couples the check node and the variable node is the edge and corresponds to “1” of elements of the parity check matrix.

That is, when an element of a j-th row and an i-th column of the parity check matrix is 1, in FIG. 4, an i-th variable node (node of “=”) from the upper side and a j-th check node (node of “+”) from the upper side are connected by the edge. The edge shows that a code bit corresponding to the variable node has a restriction condition corresponding to the check node.

In a sum product algorithm that is a decoding method of the LDPC code, the variable node operation and the check node operation are repetitively performed.

FIG. 5 illustrates the variable node operation that is performed by the variable node.

In the variable node, the message v_(i) that corresponds to the edge for calculation is calculated by the variable node operation of the expression (1) using messages u₁ and u₂ from the remaining edges connected to the variable node and the reception value u_(0i). The messages that correspond to the other edges are also calculated by the same method.

FIG. 6 illustrates the check node operation that is performed by the check node.

In this case, the check node operation of the expression (2) can be rewritten by an expression (6) using a relation of an expression a×b=exp{ln(|a|)+ln(|b|)}×sign(a)×sign(b). However, sign(x) is 1 in the case of x≥0 and is −1 in the case of x<0.

$\begin{matrix} \left\lbrack {{Math}.\mspace{14mu} 6} \right\rbrack & \; \\ \begin{matrix} {u_{j} = {2\; {\tanh^{- 1}\left( {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)}} \right)}}} \\ {= {2\; {\tanh^{- 1}\left\lbrack {\exp \left\{ {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{\ln \left( \left| {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)} \right| \right)}} \right\} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( {\tanh \left( \frac{v_{i}}{2} \right)} \right)}}} \right\rbrack}}} \\ {= {2\; {\tanh^{- 1}\left\lbrack {\exp \left\{ {- \left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{- {\ln \left( {\tanh \left( \frac{\left| v_{i} \right|}{2} \right)} \right)}}} \right)} \right\}} \right\rbrack} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\; \left( v_{i} \right)}}}} \end{matrix} & (6) \end{matrix}$

In x≥0, if a function ϕ(x) is defined as an expression ϕ(x)=ln(tan h(x/2)), an expression ϕ⁻¹(x)=2 tan h⁻¹(e^(−x)) is realized. For this reason, the expression (6) can be changed to an expression (7).

$\begin{matrix} \left\lbrack {{Math}.\mspace{14mu} 7} \right\rbrack & \; \\ {u_{j} = {{\varphi^{- 1}\left( {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}{\varphi \mspace{14mu} \left( \left| v_{i} \right| \right)}} \right)} \times {\prod\limits_{i = 1}^{d_{c} - 1}\; {{sign}\left( v_{i} \right)}}}} & (7) \end{matrix}$

In the check node, the check node operation of the expression (2) is performed according to the expression (7).

That is, in the check node, as illustrated in FIG. 6, the message u_(j) that corresponds to the edge for calculation is calculated by the check node operation of the expression (7) using messages v₁, v₂, v₃, v₄, and v₅ from the remaining edges connected to the check node. The messages that correspond to the other edges are also calculated by the same method.

The function ϕ(x) of the expression (7) can be represented as ϕ(x)=ln((e^(x)+1)/(e^(x)−1)) and ϕ(x)=ϕ⁻¹(x) is satisfied in x>0. When the functions ϕ(x) and ϕ⁻¹(x) are mounted to hardware, the functions ϕ(x) and ϕ⁻¹(x) may be mounted using an LUT (Look Up Table). However, both the functions ϕ(x) and ϕ⁻¹(x) become the same LUT.

<Configuration Example of Transmission System to which Present Disclosure is Applied>

FIG. 7 illustrates a configuration example of an embodiment of a transmission system (a system means a logical gathering of a plurality of devices and a device of each configuration may be arranged or may not be arranged in the same casing) to which the present invention is applied.

In FIG. 7, the transmission system includes a transmitting device 11 and a receiving device 12.

For example, the transmitting device 11 transmits (broadcasts) (transfers) a program of television broadcasting, and so on. That is, for example, the transmitting device 11 encodes target data that is a transmission target such as image data and audio data as a program into LDPC codes, and, for example, transmits them through a communication path 13 such as a satellite circuit, a ground wave and a cable (wire circuit).

The receiving device 12 receives the LDPC code transmitted from the transmitting device 11 through the communication path 13, decodes the LDPC code to obtain the target data, and outputs the target data.

In this case, it is known that the LDPC code used by the transmission system of FIG. 7 shows the very high capability in an AWGN (Additive White Gaussian Noise) communication path.

Meanwhile, in the communication path 13, burst error or erasure may be generated. Especially in the case where the communication path 13 is the ground wave, for example, in an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system, power of a specific symbol may become 0 (erasure) according to delay of an echo (paths other than a main path), under a multi-path environment in which D/U (Desired to Undesired Ratio) is 0 dB (power of Undesired=echo is equal to power of Desired=main path).

In the flutter (communication path in which delay is 0 and an echo having a Doppler frequency is added), when D/U is 0 dB, entire power of an OFDM symbol at a specific time may become 0 (erasure) by the Doppler frequency.

In addition, the burst error may be generated due to a situation of a wiring line from a receiving unit (not illustrated in the drawings) of the side of the receiving device 12 such as an antenna receiving a signal from the transmitting device 11 to the receiving device 12 or instability of a power supply of the receiving device 12.

Meanwhile, in decoding of the LDPC code, in the variable node corresponding to the column of the parity check matrix H and the code bit of the LDPC code, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the variable node operation of the expression (1) with the addition of (the reception value u0i of) the code bit of the LDPC code is performed. For this reason, if error is generated in the code bits used for the variable node operation, precision of the calculated message is deteriorated.

In the decoding of the LDPC code, in the check node, the check node operation of the expression (7) is performed using the message calculated by the variable node connected to the check node. For this reason, if the number of check nodes in which error (including erasure) is generated simultaneously in (the code bits of the LDPC codes corresponding to) the plurality of connected variable nodes increases, decoding performance is deteriorated.

That is, if the two or more variable nodes of the variable nodes connected to the check node become simultaneously erasure, the check node returns a message in which the probability of a value being 0 and the probability of a value being 1 are equal to each other, to all the variable nodes. In this case, the check node that returns the message of the equal probabilities does not contribute to one decoding processing (one set of the variable node operation and the check node operation). As a result, it is necessary to increase the repetition number of times of the decoding processing, the decoding performance is deteriorated, and consumption power of the receiving device 12 that performs decoding of the LDPC code increases.

Therefore, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, tolerance against the burst error or the erasure can be improved while performance in the AWGN communication path (AWGN channel) is maintained.

<Configuration Example of Transmitting Device 11>

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the transmitting device 11 of FIG. 7.

In the transmitting device 11, one or more input streams corresponding to target data are supplied to a mode adaptation/multiplexer 111.

The mode adaptation/multiplexer 111 performs mode selection and processes such as multiplexing of one or more input streams supplied thereto, as needed, and supplies data obtained as a result to a padder 112.

The padder 112 performs necessary zero padding (insertion of Null) with respect to the data supplied from the mode adaptation/multiplexer 111 and supplies data obtained as a result to a BB scrambler 113.

The BB scrambler 113 performs base-band scrambling (BB scrambling) with respect to the data supplied from the padder 112 and supplies data obtained as a result to a BCH encoder 114.

The BCH encoder 114 performs BCH encoding with respect to the data supplied from the BB scrambler 113 and supplies data obtained as a result as LDPC target data to be an LDPC encoding target to an LDPC encoder 115.

The LDPC encoder 115 performs LDPC encoding according to a parity check matrix or the like in which a parity matrix to be a portion corresponding to a parity bit of an LDPC code becomes a staircase (dual diagonal) structure with respect to the LDPC target data supplied from the BCH encoder 114, for example, and outputs an LDPC code in which the LDPC target data is information bits.

That is, the LDPC encoder 115 performs the LDPC encoding to encode the LDPC target data with an LDPC such as the LDPC code (corresponding to the parity check matrix) defined in the predetermined standard of the DVB-S.2, the DVB-T.2, the DVB-C.2 or the like, and the LDPC code (corresponding to the parity check matrix) or the like that is to be employed in ATSC 3.0, and outputs the LDPC code obtained as a result.

The LDPC code defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 and the LDPC code that is to be employed in ATSC 3.0 are an IRA (Irregular Repeat Accumulate) code and a parity matrix of the parity check matrix of the LDPC code becomes a staircase structure. The parity matrix and the staircase structure will be described later. The IRA code is described in “Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Codes”, H. Jin, A. Khandekar, and R. J. McEliece, in Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Turbo codes and Related Topics, pp. 1-8, September 2000, for example.

The LDPC code that is output by the LDPC encoder 115 is supplied to the bit interleaver 116.

The bit interleaver 116 performs bit interleave to be described later with respect to the LDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 115 and supplies the LDPC code after the bit interleave to an mapper 117.

The mapper 117 maps the LDPC code supplied from the bit interleaver 116 to a signal point representing one symbol of orthogonal modulation in a unit (symbol unit) of code bits of one or more bits of the LDPC code and performs the orthogonal modulation (multilevel modulation).

That is, the mapper 117 performs maps the LDPC code supplied from the bit interleaver 116 to a signal point determined by a modulation scheme performing the orthogonal modulation of the LDPC code, on an IQ plane (IQ constellation) defined by an I axis representing an I component of the same phase as a carrier and a Q axis representing a Q component orthogonal to the carrier, and performs the orthogonal modulation.

When the number of signal points decided in the modulation scheme of the orthogonal modulation performed by the mapper 117 is 2^(m), m-bit code bits of the LDPC code are used as a symbol (one symbol), and the mapper 117 maps the LDPC code supplied from the bit interleaver 116 to a signal point indicating a symbol among the 2^(m) signal points in units of symbols.

Here, examples of the modulation scheme of the orthogonal modulation performed by the mapper 117 include a modulation scheme specified in a standard such as DVB-T.2, a modulation scheme that is scheduled to be employed in ATSC 3.0, and other modulation schemes, that is, includes Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), 8 Phase-Shift Keying (8 PSK), 16 Amplitude Phase-Shift Keying (APSK), 32 APSK, 16 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM, 4096QAM, and 4 Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM). A modulation scheme by which the orthogonal modulation is performed in the mapper 117 is set in advance, for example, according to an operation of an operator of the transmitting device 11.

The data (a mapping result of mapping the symbol to the signal point) obtained by the process of the mapper 117 is supplied to a time interleaver 118.

The time interleaver 118 performs time interleave (interleave in a time direction) in a unit of symbol with respect to the data supplied from the mapper 117 and supplies data obtained as a result to an single input single output/multiple input single output encoder (SISO/MISO encoder) 119.

The SISO/MISO encoder 119 performs spatiotemporal encoding with respect to the data supplied from the time interleaver 118 and supplies the data to the frequency interleaver 120.

The frequency interleaver 120 performs frequency interleave (interleave in a frequency direction) in a unit of symbol with respect to the data supplied from the SISO/MISO encoder 119 and supplies the data to a frame builder/resource allocation unit 131.

On the other hand, for example, control data (signalling) for transfer control such as BB signaling (Base Band Signalling) (BB Header) is supplied to the BCH encoder 121.

The BCH encoder 121 performs the BCH encoding with respect to the signaling supplied thereto and supplies data obtained as a result to an LDPC encoder 122, similar to the BCH encoder 114.

The LDPC encoder 122 sets the data supplied from the BCH encoder 121 as LDPC target data, performs the LDPC encoding with respect to the data, and supplies an LDPC code obtained as a result to a mapper 123, similar to the LDPC encoder 115.

The mapper 123 maps the LDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 122 to a signal point representing one symbol of orthogonal modulation in a unit (symbol unit) of code bits of one or more bits of the LDPC code, performs the orthogonal modulation, and supplies data obtained as a result to the frequency interleaver 124, similar to the mapper 117.

The frequency interleaver 124 performs the frequency interleave in a unit of symbol with respect to the data supplied from the mapper 123 and supplies the data to the frame builder/resource allocation unit 131, similar to the frequency interleaver 120.

The frame builder/resource allocation unit 131 inserts symbols of pilots into necessary positions of the data (symbols) supplied from the frequency interleavers 120 and 124, configures a frame (for example, a physical layer (PL) frame, a T2 frame, a C2 frame, and so on) including symbols of a predetermined number from data (symbols) obtained as a result, and supplies the frame to an OFDM generating unit 132.

The OFDM generating unit 132 generates an OFDM signal corresponding to the frame from the frame supplied from the frame builder/resource allocation unit 131 and transmits the OFDM signal through the communication path 13 (FIG. 7).

Here, for example, the transmitting device 11 can be configured without including part of the blocks illustrated in FIG. 8 such as the time interleaver 118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119, the frequency interleaver 120 and the frequency interleaver 124.

<Configuration Example of Bit Interleaver 116>

FIG. 9 illustrates a configuration example of the bit interleaver 116 of FIG. 8.

The bit interleaver 116 has a function of interleaving data, and includes a parity interleaver 23, a group-wise interleaver 24, and a block interleaver 25.

The parity interleaver 23 performs parity interleave for interleaving the parity bits of the LDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 115 into positions of other parity bits and supplies the LDPC code after the parity interleave to the group-wise interleaver 24.

The group-wise interleaver 24 performs the group-wise interleave with respect to the LDPC code supplied from the parity interleaver 23 and supplies the LDPC code after the group-wise interleave to the block interleaver 25.

Here, in the group-wise interleave, 360 bits of one segment are used as a bit group, where the LDPC code of one code is divided into segments in units of 360 bits equal to the unit size P which will be described later, and the LDPC code supplied from the parity interleaver 23 is interleaved in units of bit groups, starting from the head.

When the group-wise interleave is performed, the error rate can be improved to be better than when the group-wise interleave is not performed, and as a result, it is possible to secure the excellent communication quality in the data transmission.

The block interleaver 25 performs block interleave for demultiplexing the LDPC code supplied from the group-wise interleaver 24, converts, for example, the LDPC code corresponding to one code into an m-bit symbol serving as a unit of mapping, and supplies the m-bit symbol to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8).

Here, in the block interleave, for example, the LDPC code corresponding to one code is converted into the m-bit symbol such that the LDPC code supplied from the group-wise interleaver 24 is written in a storage region in which columns serving as a storage region storing a predetermined number of bits in a column (vertical) direction are arranged in a row (horizontal) direction by the number m of bits of the symbol in the column direction and read from the storage region in the row direction.

<Parity Check Matrix H of the LDPC Code>

Next, FIG. 10 illustrates an example of the parity check matrix H that is used for LDPC encoding by the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8.

The parity check matrix H becomes an LDGM (Low-Density Generation Matrix) structure and can be represented by an expression H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] (a matrix in which elements of the information matrix H_(A) are set to left elements and elements of the parity matrix H_(T) are set to right elements), using an information matrix H_(A) of a portion corresponding to information bits among the code bits of the LDPC code and a parity matrix H_(T) corresponding to the parity bits.

In this case, a bit number of the information bits among the code bits of one code of LDPC code (one code word) and a bit number of the parity bits are referred to as an information length K and a parity length M, respectively, and a bit number of the code bits of one code (one code word) of LDPC code is referred to as a code length N(=K+M).

The information length K and the parity length M of the LDPC code having the certain code length N are determined by an encoding rate. The parity check matrix H becomes a matrix in which row×column is M×N (a matrix of M×N). The information matrix H_(A) becomes a matrix of M×K and the parity matrix H_(T) becomes a matrix of M×M.

FIG. 11 is an illustration of an example of the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H used for LDPC encoding in the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8.

The parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H used for LDPC encoding in the LDPC encoder 115 is identical to, for example, the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code specified in a standard such as DVB-T.2.

The parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like becomes a staircase structure matrix (lower bidiagonal matrix) in which elements of 1 are arranged in a staircase shape, as illustrated in FIG. 11. The row weight of the parity matrix H_(T) becomes 1 with respect to the first row and becomes 2 with respect to the remaining rows. The column weight becomes 1 with respect to the final column and becomes 2 with respect to the remaining columns.

As described above, the LDPC code of the parity check matrix H in which the parity matrix H_(T) becomes the staircase structure can be easily generated using the parity check matrix H.

That is, the LDPC code (one code word) is represented by a row vector c and a column vector obtained by transposing the row vector is represented by C^(T). In addition, a portion of information bits of the row vector c to be the LDPC code is represented by a row vector A and a portion of the parity bits is represented by a row vector T.

The row vector c can be represented by an expression c=[A|T] (a row vector in which elements of the row vector A are set to left elements and elements of the row vector T are set to right elements), using the row vector A corresponding to the information bits and the row vector T corresponding to the parity bits.

In the parity check matrix H and the row vector c=[A|T] corresponding to the LDPC code, it is necessary to satisfy an expression Hc^(T)=0. The row vector T that corresponds to the parity bits constituting the row vector c=[A|T] satisfying the expression Hc^(T)=0 can be sequentially calculated by setting elements of each row to 0, sequentially (in order) from elements of a first row of the column vector Hc^(T) in the expression Hc^(T)=0, when the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] becomes the staircase structure illustrated in FIG. 11.

FIG. 12 is an illustration of the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like.

The column weight becomes X with respect KX columns from a first column of the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like, becomes 3 with respect to the following K3 columns, becomes 2 with respect to the following (M−1) columns, and becomes 1 with respect to a final column.

In this case, KX+K3+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N.

FIG. 13 is an illustration of column numbers KX, K3, and M and a column weight X, with respect to each encoding rate r of the LDPC code defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like.

In the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like, LDPC codes that have code lengths N of 64800 bits and 16200 bits are defined.

With respect to the LDPC code having the code length N of 64800 bits, 11 encoding rates (nominal rates) of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, and 9/10 are defined. With respect to the LDPC code having the code length N of 16200 bits, 10 encoding rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, and 8/9 are defined.

Hereinafter, the code length N of the 64800 bits is referred to as 64 kbits and the code length N of the 16200 is referred to as 16 kbits.

With respect to the LDPC code, an error rate tends to be lower in a code bit corresponding to a column of which a column weight of the parity check matrix H is large.

In the parity check matrix H that is illustrated in FIGS. 12 and 13 and is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like, a column weight of a column of a head side (left side) tends to be large. Therefore, with respect to the LDPC code corresponding to the parity check matrix H, a code bit of a head side tends to be robust to error (there is tolerance against the error) and a code bit of an ending side tends to be weak for the error.

<Parity Interleave>

Next, the parity interleave by the parity interleaver 23 of FIG. 9 will be described with reference to FIGS. 14 to 16.

FIG. 24 illustrates an example of (a part of) a Tanner graph of the parity check matrix of the LDPC code.

As illustrated in FIG. 14, if a plurality of, for example, two variable nodes among (the code bits corresponding to) the variable nodes connected to the check node simultaneously become the error such as the erasure, the check node returns a message in which the probability of a value being 0 and the probability of a value being 1 are equal to each other, to all the variable nodes connected to the check node. For this reason, if the plurality of variable nodes connected to the same check node simultaneously become the erasure, decoding performance is deteriorated.

Meanwhile, the LDPC code that is output by the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8 is an IRA code, same as the LDPC code that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like, and the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H becomes a staircase structure, as illustrated in FIG. 11.

FIG. 15 illustrates the parity matrix HT becoming the staircase structure as illustrated in FIG. 11, and an example of a Tanner graph corresponding to the parity matrix HT.

That is, A of FIG. 15 illustrates an example of the parity matrix HT becoming the staircase structure and B of FIG. 15 illustrates the Tanner graph corresponding to the parity matrix HT of A of FIG. 15.

In the parity matrix H_(T) with a staircase structure, elements of 1 are adjacent in each row (excluding the first row). Therefore, in the Tanner graph of the parity matrix H_(T), two adjacent variable nodes corresponding to a column of two adjacent elements in which the value of the parity matrix H_(T) is 1 are connected with the same check node.

Therefore, when parity bits corresponding to two above-mentioned adjacent variable nodes become errors at the same time by burst error and erasure, and so on, the check node connected with two variable nodes (variable nodes to find a message by the use of parity bits) corresponding to those two parity bits that became errors returns message that the probability with a value of 0 and the probability with a value of 1 are equal probability, to the variable nodes connected with the check node, and therefore the performance of decoding is deteriorated. Further, when the burst length (bit number of parity bits that continuously become errors) becomes large, the number of check nodes that return the message of equal probability increases and the performance of decoding is further deteriorated.

Therefore, the parity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9) performs the parity interleave for interleaving the parity bits of the LDPC code from the LDPC encoder 115 into positions of other parity bits, to prevent the decoding performance from being deteriorated.

FIG. 16 is an illustration of the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H corresponding to the LDPC code that has undergone the parity interleave performed by the parity interleaver 23 of FIG. 9.

Here, the information matrix H_(A) of the parity check matrix H corresponding to the LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115 has a cyclic structure, similarly to the information matrix of the parity check matrix H corresponding to the LDPC code specified in a standard such as DVB-T.2.

The cyclic structure refers to a structure in which a certain column matches one obtained by cyclically shifting another column, and includes, for example, a structure in which a position of 1 of each row of P columns becomes a position obtained by cyclically shifting a first column of the P columns in the column direction by a predetermined value such as a value that is proportional to a value q obtained by dividing a parity length M for every P columns. Hereinafter, the P columns in the cyclic structure are referred to appropriately as a unit size.

As an LDPC code defined in a standard such as DVB-T.2, as described in FIG. 12 and FIG. 13, there are two kinds of LDPC codes whose code length N is 64800 bits and 16200 bits, and, for both of those two kinds of LDPC codes, the unit size P is defined as 360 which is one of divisors excluding 1 and M among the divisors of the parity length M.

The parity length M becomes a value other than primes represented by an expression M=q×P=q×360, using a value q different according to the encoding rate. Therefore, similar to the unit size P, the value q is one other than 1 and M among the divisors of the parity length M and is obtained by dividing the parity length M by the unit size P (the product of P and q to be the divisors of the parity length M becomes the parity length M).

As described above, when information length is assumed to be K, an integer equal to or greater than 0 and less than P is assumed to be x and an integer equal to or greater than 0 and less than q is assumed to be y, the parity interleaver 23 interleaves the K+qx+y+l-th code bit among code bits of an LDPC code of N bits to the position of the K+Py+x+1-th code bit as parity interleave.

Since both of the K+qx+y+1-th code bit and the K+Py+x+1-th code bit are code bits after the K+1-th one, they are parity bits, and therefore the positions of the parity bits of the LDPC code are moved according to the parity interleave.

According to the parity interleave, (the parity bits corresponding to) the variable nodes connected to the same check node are separated by the unit size P, that is, 360 bits in this case. For this reason, when the burst length is less than 360 bits, the plurality of variable nodes connected to the same check node can be prevented from simultaneously becoming the error. As a result, tolerance against the burst error can be improved.

The LDPC code after the interleave for interleaving the (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit into the position of the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bit is matched with an LDPC code of a parity check matrix (hereinafter, referred to as a transformed parity check matrix) obtained by performing column replacement for replacing the (K+qx+y+1)-th column of the original parity check matrix H with the (K+Py+x+1)-th column.

In the parity matrix of the transformed parity check matrix, as illustrated in FIG. 16, a pseudo cyclic structure that uses the P columns (in FIG. 16, 360 columns) as a unit appears.

Here, the pseudo cyclic structure is a structure in which the remaining portion excluding a part has the cyclic structure.

The transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing the column permutation corresponding to the parity interleave on the parity check matrix of the LDPC code specified in the standard such as DVB-T.2 has the pseudo cyclic structure rather than the (perfect) cyclic structure since it is one 1 element short (it is a 0 element) in a portion (a shift matrix which will be described later) of a 360×360 matrix of a right top corner portion of the transformed parity check matrix.

The transformed parity check matrix for the parity check matrix of the LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115 has the pseudo cyclic structure, for example, similarly to the transformed parity check matrix for the parity check matrix of the LDPC code specified in the standard such as DVB-T.2.

The transformed parity check matrix of FIG. 16 becomes a matrix that is obtained by performing the column replacement corresponding to the parity interleave and replacement (row replacement) of a row to configure the transformed parity check matrix with a constitutive matrix to be described later, with respect to the original parity check matrix H.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating processing executed by the LDPC encoder 115, the bit interleaver 116, and the mapper 117 of FIG. 8.

The LDPC encoder 115 awaits supply of the LDPC target data from the BCH encoder 114. In step S101, the LDPC encoder 115 encodes the LDPC target data with the LDPC code and supplies the LDPC code to the bit interleaver 116. The processing proceeds to step S102.

In step S102, the bit interleaver 116 performs the bit interleave on the LDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 115, and supplies the symbol obtained by the bit interleave to the mapper 117, and the process proceeds to step S103.

That is, in step S102, in the bit interleaver 116 (FIG. 9), the parity interleaver 23 performs parity interleave with respect to the LDPC code supplied from the LDPC encoder 115 and supplies the LDPC code after the parity interleave to the group-wise interleaver 24.

The group-wise interleaver 24 performs the group-wise interleave on the LDPC code supplied from the parity interleaver 23, and supplies the resulting LDPC code to the block interleaver 25.

The block interleaver 25 performs the block interleave on the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave performed by the group-wise interleaver 24, and supplies the m-bit symbol obtained as a result to the mapper 117.

In step S103, the mapper 117 maps the symbol supplied from the block interleaver 25 to any of the 2^(m) signal points decided in the modulation scheme of the orthogonal modulation performed by the mapper 117, performs the orthogonal modulation, and supplies data obtained as a result to the time interleaver 118.

As described above, by performing the parity interleave and the group-wise interleave, it is possible to improve the error rate when transmission is performed using a plurality of code bits of the LDPC code as one symbol.

Here, in FIG. 9, for the sake of convenience of description, the parity interleaver 23 serving as the block performing the parity interleave and the group-wise interleaver 24 serving as the block performing the group-wise interleave are configured individually, but the parity interleaver 23 and the group-wise interleaver 24 may be configured integrally.

That is, both the parity interleave and the group-wise interleave can be performed by writing and reading of the code bits with respect to the memory and can be represented by a matrix to convert an address (write address) to perform writing of the code bits into an address (read address) to perform reading of the code bits.

Therefore, if a matrix obtained by multiplying a matrix representing the parity interleave and a matrix representing the group-wise interleave is calculated, the code bits are converted by the matrixes, the parity interleave is performed, and a group-wise interleave result of the LDPC code after the parity interleave can be obtained.

In addition to the parity interleaver 23 and the group-wise interleaver 24, the block interleaver 25 can be integrally configured.

That is, the block interleave executed by the block interleaver 25 can be represented by the matrix to convert the write address of the memory storing the LDPC code into the read address.

Therefore, if a matrix obtained by multiplying the matrix representing the parity interleave, the matrix representing the group-wise interleave, and the matrix representing the block interleave is calculated, the parity interleave, the group-wise interleave, and the block interleave can be collectively executed by the matrixes.

<Configuration Example of LDPC Encoder 115>

FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8.

The LDPC encoder 122 of FIG. 8 is also configured in the same manner.

As described in FIGS. 12 and 13, in the standard of the DVB-T.2 or the like, the LDPC codes that have the two code lengths N of 64800 bits and 16200 bits are defined.

With respect to the LDPC code having the code length N of 64800 bits, 11 encoding rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, and 9/10 are defined.

With respect to the LDPC code having the code length N of 16200 bits, 10 encoding rates of 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, and 8/9 are defined (FIGS. 12 and 13).

For example, the LDPC encoder 115 can perform encoding (error correction encoding) using the LDPC code of each encoding rate having the code length N of 64800 bits or 16200 bits, according to the parity check matrix H prepared for each code length N and each encoding rate.

The LDPC encoder 115 includes an encoding processing unit 601 and a storage unit 602.

The encoding processing unit 601 includes an encoding rate setting unit 611, an initial value table reading unit 612, a parity check matrix generating unit 613, an information bit reading unit 614, an encoding parity operation unit 615, an a control unit 616. The encoding processing unit 601 performs the LDPC encoding of LDPC target data supplied to the LDPC encoder 115 and supplies an LDPC code obtained as a result to the bit interleaver 116 (FIG. 8).

That is, the encoding rate setting unit 611 sets the code length N and the encoding rate of the LDPC code, according to an operation of an operator.

The initial value table reading unit 612 reads a parity check matrix initial value table to be described later, which corresponds to the code length N and the encoding rate set by the encoding rate setting unit 611, from the storage unit 602.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 generates a parity check matrix H by arranging elements of 1 Of an information matrix H_(A) corresponding to an information length K (=information length N−parity length M) according to the code length N and the encoding rate set by the encoding rate setting unit 611 in the column direction with a period of 360 columns (unit size P), on the basis of the parity check matrix initial value table read by the initial value table reading unit 612, and stores the parity check matrix H in the storage unit 602.

The information bit reading unit 614 reads (extracts) information bits corresponding to the information length K, from the LDPC target data supplied to the LDPC encoder 115.

The encoding parity operation unit 615 reads the parity check matrix H generated by the parity check matrix generating unit 613 from the storage unit 602, and generates a code word (LDPC code) by calculating parity bits for the information bits read by the information bit reading unit 614 on the basis of a predetermined expression using the parity check matrix H.

The control unit 616 controls each block constituting the encoding processing unit 601.

In the storage unit 602, a plurality of parity check matrix initial value tables that correspond to the plurality of encoding rates illustrated in FIGS. 12 and 13, with respect to the code lengths N such as the 64800 bits and 16200 bits, are stored. In addition, the storage unit 602 temporarily stores data that is necessary for processing of the encoding processing unit 601.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart illustrating an example of processing of the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 18.

In step S201, the encoding rate setting unit 611 determines (sets) the code length N and the encoding rate r to perform the LDPC encoding.

In step S202, the initial value table reading unit 612 reads the previously determined parity check matrix initial value table corresponding to the code length N and the encoding rate r determined by the encoding rate setting unit 611, from the storage unit 602.

In step S203, the parity check matrix generating unit 613 calculates (generates) the parity check matrix H of the LDPC code of the code length N and the encoding rate r determined by the encoding rate setting unit 611, using the parity check matrix initial value table read from the storage unit 602 by the initial value table reading unit 612, supplies the parity check matrix to the storage unit 602, and stores the parity check matrix in the storage unit.

In step S204, the information bit reading unit 614 reads the information bits of the information length K (=N×r) corresponding to the code length N and the encoding rate r determined by the encoding rate setting unit 611, from the LDPC target data supplied to the LDPC encoder 115, reads the parity check matrix H calculated by the parity check matrix generating unit 613 from the storage unit 602, and supplies the information bits and the parity check matrix to the encoding parity operation unit 615.

In step S205, the encoding parity operation unit 615 sequentially operates parity bits of a code word c that satisfies an expression (8) using the information bits and the parity check matrix H that have been read from the information bit reading unit 614.

Hc ^(T)=0  (8)

In the expression (8), c represents a row vector as the code word (LDPC code) and c^(T) represents transposition of the row vector c.

As described above, when a portion of the information bits of the row vector c as the LDPC code (one code word) is represented by a row vector A and a portion of the parity bits is represented by a row vector T, the row vector c can be represented by an expression c=[A/T], using the row vector A as the information bits and the row vector T as the parity bits.

In the parity check matrix H and the row vector c=[A|T] corresponding to the LDPC code, it is necessary to satisfy an expression Hc^(T)=0. The row vector T that corresponds to the parity bits constituting the row vector c=[A|T] satisfying the expression Hc^(T)=0 can be sequentially calculated by setting elements of each row to 0, sequentially from elements of a first row of the column vector Hc^(T) in the expression Hc^(T)=0, when the parity matrix H_(T) of the parity check matrix H=[H_(A)|H_(T)] becomes the staircase structure illustrated in FIG. 11.

If the encoding parity operation unit 615 calculates the parity bits T with respect to the information bits A from the information bit reading unit 614, the encoding parity operation unit 615 outputs the code word c=[A/T] represented by the information bits A and the parity bits T as an LDPC encoding result of the information bits A.

Then, in step S206, the control unit 616 determines whether the LDPC encoding ends. When it is determined in step S206 that the LDPC encoding does not end, that is, when there is LDPC target data to perform the LDPC encoding, the processing returns to step S201 (or step S204). Hereinafter, the processing of steps S201 (or step S204) to S206 is repeated.

When it is determined in step S206 that the LDPC encoding ends, that is, there is no LDPC target data to perform the LDPC encoding, the LDPC encoder 115 ends the processing.

As described above, the parity check matrix initial value table corresponding to each code length N and each encoding rate r is prepared and the LDPC encoder 115 performs the LDPC encoding of the predetermined code length N and the predetermined encoding rate r, using the parity check matrix H generated from the parity check matrix initial value table corresponding to the predetermined code length N and the predetermined encoding rate r.

<Example of the Parity Check Matrix Initial Value Table>

The parity check matrix initial value table is a table that represents positions of elements of 1 of the information matrix H_(A) (FIG. 10) of the parity check matrix H corresponding to the information length K according to the code length N and the encoding rate r of the LDPC code (LDPC code defined by the parity check matrix H) for every 360 columns (unit size P) and is previously made for each parity check matrix H of each code length N and each encoding rate r.

That is, the parity check matrix initial value table represents at least positions of elements of 1 of the information matrix H_(A) for every 360 columns (unit size P).

Examples of the parity check matrix H include a parity check matrix in which the (whole) parity matrix H_(T) has the staircase structure, which is specified in DVB-T.2 or the like and a parity check matrix in which a part of the parity matrix H_(T) has the staircase structure, and the remaining portion is a diagonal matrix (a unit matrix), which is proposed by CRC/ETRI.

Hereinafter, an expression scheme of a parity check matrix initial value table indicating the parity check matrix in which the parity matrix H_(T) has the staircase structure, which is specified in DVB-T.2 or the like, is referred to as a DVB scheme, and an expression scheme of a parity check matrix initial value table indicating the parity check matrix proposed by CRC/ETRI is referred to as an ETRI scheme.

FIG. 20 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table in the DVB method.

That is, FIG. 20 illustrates a parity check matrix initial value table with respect to the parity check matrix H that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 and has the code length N of 16200 bits and the encoding rate (an encoding rate of notation of the DVB-T.2) r of 1/4.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) calculates the parity check matrix H using the parity check matrix initial value table in the DVB method, as follows.

FIG. 21 is an illustration of a method of calculating a parity check matrix H from a parity check matrix initial value table in the DVB method.

That I, FIG. 21 illustrates a parity check matrix initial value table with respect to the parity check matrix H that is defined in the standard of the DVB-T.2 and has the code length N of 16200 bits and the encoding rate r of 2/3.

The parity check matrix initial value table in the DVB method is the table that represents the positions of the elements of 1 of the whole information matrix H_(A) corresponding to the information length K according to the code length N and the encoding rate r of the LDPC code for every 360 columns (unit size P). In the i-th row thereof, row numbers (row numbers when a row number of a first row of the parity check matrix H is set to 0) of elements of 1 of a (1+360×(i−1)-th column of the parity check matrix H are arranged by a number of column weights of the (1+360×(i−1)-th column.

Here, since the parity matrix H_(T) (FIG. 10) corresponding to the parity length M in the parity check matrix H of the DVB scheme is fixed to the staircase structure illustrated in FIG. 15, it is possible to obtain the parity check matrix H if it is possible to obtain the information matrix H_(A) (FIG. 10) corresponding to the information length K through the parity check matrix initial value table.

A row number k+1 of the parity check matrix initial value table in the DVB method is different according to the information length K.

A relation of an expression (9) is realized between the information length K and the row number k+1 of the parity check matrix initial value table.

K=(k+1)×360  (9)

In this case, 360 of the expression (9) is the unit size P described in FIG. 16.

In the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21, 13 numerical values are arranged from the first row to the third row and 3 numerical values are arranged from the fourth row to the (k+1)-th row (in FIG. 21, the 30th row).

Therefore, the column weights of the parity check matrix H that are calculated from the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21 are 13 from the first column to the (1+360×(3−1)−1)-th column and are 3 from the (1+360×(3−1))-th column to the K-th column.

The first row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21 becomes 0, 2084, 1613, 1548, 1286, 1460, 3196, 4297, 2481, 3369, 3451, 4620, and 2622, which shows that elements of rows having row numbers of 0, 2084, 1613, 1548, 1286, 1460, 3196, 4297, 2481, 3369, 3451, 4620, and 2622 are 1 (and the other elements are 0), in the first column of the parity check matrix H.

The second row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 21 becomes 1, 122, 1516, 3448, 2880, 1407, 1847, 3799, 3529, 373, 971, 4358, and 3108, which shows that elements of rows having row numbers of 1, 122, 1516, 3448, 2880, 1407, 1847, 3799, 3529, 373, 971, 4358, and 3108 are 1, in the 361 (=1+360×(2−1))-th column of the parity check matrix H.

As described above, the parity check matrix initial value table represents positions of elements of 1 of the information matrix H_(A) of the parity check matrix H for every 360 columns.

The columns other than the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the parity check matrix H, that is, the individual columns from the (2+360×(i−1))-th column to the (360×i)-th column are arranged by cyclically shifting elements of 1 of the (1+360×(i−1))-th column determined by the parity check matrix initial value table periodically in a downward direction (downward direction of the columns) according to the parity length M.

That is, the (2+360×(i−1))-th column is obtained by cyclically shifting (1+360×(i−1))-th column in the downward direction by M/360 (=q) and the next (3+360×(i−1))-th column is obtained by cyclically shifting (1+360×(i−1))-th column in the downward direction by 2×M/360 (=2×q) (obtained by cyclically shifting (2+360×(i−1))-th column in the downward direction by M/360 (=q)).

If a numerical value of a j-th column (j-th column from the left side) of an i-th row (i-th row from the upper side) of the parity check matrix initial value table is represented as h_(i,j) and a row number of the j-th element of 1 of the w-th column of the parity check matrix H is represented as H_(w-j), the row number H_(w-j) of the element of 1 of the w-th column to be a column other than the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the parity check matrix H can be calculated by an expression (10).

H _(w-y)=mod{h _(i,j)+mod((w−1),P)×q,M)  (10)

In this case, mod(x, y) means a remainder that is obtained by dividing x by y.

In addition, P is a unit size described above. In the present embodiment, for example, same as the standard of the DVB-S.2, the DVB-T.2, and the DVB-C.2, P is 360. In addition, q is a value M/360 that is obtained by dividing the parity length M by the unit size P (=360).

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) specifies the row numbers of the elements of 1 of the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the parity check matrix H by the parity check matrix initial value table.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) calculates the row number H_(w) of the element of 1 of the w-th column to be the column other than the (1+360×(i−1))-th column of the parity check matrix H, according to the expression (10), and generates the parity check matrix H in which the element of the obtained row number is set to 1.

FIG. 22 is an illustration of a structure of the parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme.

The parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme is configured with an A matrix, a B matrix, a C matrix, a D matrix, and a Z matrix.

The A matrix is a g×K upper left matrix of the parity check matrix expressed by a predetermined value g and the information length K of the LDPC code (=the code length N×the encoding rate r).

The B matrix is a g×g matrix having the staircase structure adjacent to the right of the A matrix.

The C matrix is an (N−K−g)×(K+g) matrix adjacently below the A matrix and the B matrix.

The D matrix is an (N−K−g)×(N−K−g) unit matrix adjacent to the right of the C matrix.

The Z matrix is a g×(N−K−g) zero matrix (zero matrix) adjacent to the right of the B matrix.

In the parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme configured with the A to D matrices and the Z matrix, the A matrix and a portion of the C matrix configure an information matrix, and the B matrix, the remaining portion of the C matrix, the D matrix, and the Z matrix configure a parity matrix.

Further, since the B matrix is the matrix having the staircase structure, and the D matrix is the unit matrix, a portion (a portion of the B matrix) of the parity matrix of the parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme has the staircase structure, and the remaining portion (the portion of the D matrix) is the diagonal matrix (the unit matrix).

Similarly to the information matrix of the parity check matrix of the DVB scheme, the A matrix and the C matrix have the cyclic structure for every 360 columns (the unit size P), and the parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI scheme indicates positions of 1 elements of the A matrix and the C matrix in units of 360 columns.

Here, as described above, since the A matrix, and a portion of the C matrix configure the information matrix, it can be said that the parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI scheme that indicates positions of 1 elements of the A matrix and the C matrix in units of 360 columns indicates at least positions of 1 elements of the information matrix in units of 360 columns.

FIG. 23 is an illustration of an example of the parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI scheme.

In other words, FIG. 23 illustrates an example of a parity check matrix initial value table for a parity check matrix in which the code length N is 50 bits, and the encoding rate r is 1/2.

The parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI scheme is a table in which positions of 1 elements of the A matrix and the C matrix are indicated for each unit size P, and row numbers (row numbers when a row number of a first row of the parity check matrix is 0) of 1 elements of a (1+P×(i−1))-th column of the parity check matrix that correspond in number to the column weight of the (1+P×(i−1))-th column are arranged in an i-th row.

Here, in order to simplify the description, the unit size P is assumed to be, for example, 5.

Further, parameters for the parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme include g=M₁, M₂, Q₁, and Q₂.

g=M₁ is a parameter for deciding the size of the B matrix and has a value that is a multiple of the unit size P. The performance of the LDPC code is changed by adjusting g=M₁, and g=M₁ is adjusted to a predetermined value when the parity check matrix is decided. Here, 15, which is three times the unit size P (=5), is assumed to be employed as g=M₁.

M₂ has a value M−M₁ obtained by subtracting M₁ from the parity length M.

Here, since the information length K is N×r=50×1/2=25, and the parity length M is N−K=50−25=25, M₂ is M−M₁=25−15=10.

Q₁ is obtained from the formula Q₁=M₁/P, and indicates the number of shifts (the number of rows) of the cyclic shift in the A matrix.

In other words, in each column other than the (1+P×(i−1))-th column of the A matrix of the parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme, that is, in each of a (2+P×(i−1))-th column to a (P×i)-th column, 1 elements of a (1+360×(i−1))-th column decided by the parity check matrix initial value table have periodically been cyclically shifted downward (downward in the column) and arranged, and Q₁ indicates the number of shifts the cyclic shift in the A matrix.

Q₂ is obtained from the formula Q₂=M₂/P, and indicates the number of shifts (the number of rows) of the cyclic shift in the C matrix.

In other words, in each column other than the (1+P×(i−1))-th column of the C matrix of the parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme, that is, in each of a (2+P×(i−1))-th column to a (P×i)-th column, 1 elements of a (1+360×(i−1))-th column decided by the parity check matrix initial value table have periodically been cyclically shifted downward (downward in the column) and arranged, and Q₂ indicates the number of shifts the cyclic shift in the C matrix.

Here, Q₁ is M₁/P=15/5=3, and Q₂ is M₂/P=10/5=2.

In the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, 3 numerical values are arranged in 1st and 2nd rows, and one numerical value is arranged in 3rd to 5th rows, and according to a sequence of the numerical values, the column weight of the parity check matrix obtained from the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23 is 3 in the 1st column to a (1+5×(2−1)−1)-th column and 1 in a (1+5×(2−1))-th column to a 5th column.

In other words, 2, 6, and 18 are arranged in the 1st row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, which indicates that elements of rows having the row numbers of 2, 6, and 18 are 1 (and the other elements are 0) in the 1st column of the parity check matrix.

Here, in this case, the A matrix is a 15×25 (g×K) matrix, the C matrix is a 10×40 ((N−K−g)×(K+g)) matrix, rows having the row numbers of 0 to 14 in the parity check matrix are rows of the A matrix, and rows having the row numbers of 15 to 24 in the parity check matrix are rows of the C matrix.

Thus, among the rows having the row numbers of 2, 6, and 18 (hereinafter referred to as rows #2, #6, and #18), the rows #2 and #6 are the rows of the A matrix, and the row #18 is the row of the C matrix.

2, 10, and 19 are arranged in the 2nd row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, which indicates that elements of the rows #2, #10, and #19 are 1 in a 6 (=1+5×(2−1))-th column of the parity check matrix.

Here, in the 6 (=1+5×(2−1))-th column of the parity check matrix, among the rows #2, #10, and #19, the rows #2 and #10 are the rows of the A matrix, and the row #19 is the row of the C matrix.

22 is arranged in the 3rd row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, which indicates that an element of the row #22 is 1 in an 11 (=1+5×(3−1))-th column of the parity check matrix.

Here, in the 11 (=1+5×(3-1))-th column of the parity check matrix, the row #22 is the row of the C matrix.

Similarly, 19 in the 4th column of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23 indicates that an element of the row #19 is 1 in a 16 (=1+5×(4−1))-th column of the parity check matrix, and 15 in the 5th row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23 indicates that an element of the row #15 is 1 in a 21(=1+5×(5−1))-st column of the parity check matrix.

As described above, the parity check matrix initial value table indicates the positions of the 1 elements of the A matrix and the C matrix of the parity check matrix for each unit size P (=5 columns).

In each column other than a (1+5×(i−1))-th column of the A matrix and the C matrix of the parity check matrix, that is, in each of a (2+5×(i−1))-th column to a (5×i)-th column, the 1 elements of the (1+5×(i−1))-th column decided by the parity check matrix initial value table have periodically been cyclically shifted downward (downward in the column) and arranged according to the parameters Q₁ and Q₂.

In other words, for example, in the (2+5×(i−1))-th column of the A matrix, the (1+5×(i−1))-th column has been cyclically shifted downward by Q₁ (=3), and in a (3+5×(i−1))-th column, the (1+5×(i−1))-th column has been cyclically shifted downward by 2×Q₁ (=2×3) (the (2+5×(i−1))-th column has been cyclically shifted downward by Q₁).

Further, for example, in the (2+5×(i−1))-th column of the C matrix, the (1+5×(i−1))-th column has been cyclically shifted downward by Q₂ (=2), and in a (3+5×(i−1))-th column, the (1+5×(i−1))-th column has been cyclically shifted downward by 2×Q₂ (=2×2) (the (2+5×(i−1))-th column has been cyclically shifted downward by Q₂).

FIG. 24 is an illustration of the A matrix generated from the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23.

In the A matrix of FIG. 24, according to the 1st row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, elements of rows #2 and #6 of a 1 (=1+5×(1−1))-st column are 1.

Further, in each of a 2 (=2+5×(1−1))-nd column to a 5 (=5+5×(1−1))-th column, an immediately previous column has been cyclically shifted downward by Q₁=3.

Further, in the A matrix of FIG. 24, according to the 2nd row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, elements of rows #2 and #10 of a 6 (=1+5×(2−1))-th column are 1.

Further, in each of a 7 (=2+5×(2−1))-th column to a 10 (=5+5×(2−1))-th column, an immediately previous column has been cyclically shifted downward by Q₁=3.

FIG. 25 is an illustration of the parity interleave of the B matrix.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) generates the A matrix using the parity check matrix initial value table, and arranges the B matrix having the staircase structure at the right of the A matrix. Further, the parity check matrix generating unit 613 regards the B matrix as the parity matrix, and performs the parity interleave so that the adjacent 1 elements of the B matrix having the staircase structure are away from each other in the row direction by the unit size P=5.

FIG. 25 illustrates the A matrix and the B matrix after the B matrix has undergone the parity interleave.

FIG. 26 is an illustration of the C matrix generated from the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23.

In the C matrix of FIG. 26, according to the 1st row of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, element of a row #18 of a 1 (=1+5×(1−1))-st column of the parity check matrix is 1.

Further, each of a 2 (=2+5×(1−1))-nd column to a 5 (=5+5×(1−1))-th column is one in which an immediately previous column has been cyclically shifted downward by Q₂=2.

Further, in the C matrix of FIG. 26, according to the 2nd to 5th columns of the parity check matrix initial value table of FIG. 23, elements of a row #19 of a 6 (=1+5×(2−1))-th column of the parity check matrix, a row #22 of an 11 (=1+5×(3−1))-th column, a row #19 of a 16 (=1+5×(4−1))-th column, and a row #15 of a 21 (=1+5×(5−1))-th column are 1.

Further, in each of the 7 (=2+5×(2-1))-th column to the 10 (=5+5×(2−1))-th column, each of a 12 (=2+5×(3-1))-th column to a 15 (=5+5×(3-1))-th column, each of a 17 (=2+5×(4-1))-th column to a 20 (=5+5×(4-1))-th column, and each of a 22 (=2+5×(5−1))-nd column to a 25 (=5+5×(5-1))-th column, an immediately previous column has been cyclically shifted downward by Q₂=2.

The parity check matrix generating unit 613 (FIG. 18) generates the C matrix using the parity check matrix initial value table, and arranges the C matrix below the A matrix and the B matrix (that has undergone the parity interleave).

Further, the parity check matrix generating unit 613 arranges the Z matrix at the right of the B matrix, arranges the D matrix at the right of the C matrix, and generates the parity check matrix illustrated in FIG. 26.

FIG. 27 is an illustration of the parity interleave of the D matrix.

After generating the parity check matrix of FIG. 26, the parity check matrix generating unit 613 regards the D matrix as the parity matrix, and performs the parity interleave (only for the D matrix) so that the 1 elements of the odd-numbered rows and the next even-numbered rows of the D matrix of the unit matrix are away from each other in the row direction by the unit size P (=5).

FIG. 27 illustrates the parity check matrix after the parity interleave of the D matrix is performed on the parity check matrix of FIG. 26.

(The encoding parity operation unit 615 (FIG. 18) of) The LDPC encoder 115 performs LDPC encoding (generation of the LDPC code), for example, using the parity check matrix of FIG. 27.

Here, the LDPC code generated using the parity check matrix of FIG. 27 is the LDPC code that has undergone the parity interleave, and thus it is unnecessary to perform the parity interleave on the LDPC code generated using the parity check matrix of FIG. 27 in the parity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9).

FIG. 28 is an illustration of the parity check matrix obtained by performing the column permutation serving as the parity deinterleave for restoring the parity interleave to an original state on the B matrix, the portion of the C matrix (the portion of the C matrix arranged below the B matrix), and the D matrix of the parity check matrix of FIG. 27.

The LDPC encoder 115 can perform LDPC encoding (generation of the LDPC code) using the parity check matrix of FIG. 28.

When the LDPC encoding is performed using the parity check matrix of FIG. 28, the LDPC code that does not undergo the parity interleave is obtained according to the LDPC encoding. Thus, when the LDPC encoding is performed using the parity check matrix of FIG. 28, the parity interleaver 23 (FIG. 9) performs the parity interleave.

FIG. 29 is an illustration of the transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing the row permutation on the parity check matrix of FIG. 27.

As will be described later, the transformed parity check matrix is a matrix represented by a combination of a P×P unit matrix, a quasi unit matrix obtained by setting one or more 1 s of the unit matrix to zero (0), a shift matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the unit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, a sum matrix serving as a sum of two or more matrices of the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, and the shifted matrix, and a P×P zero matrix.

As the transformed parity check matrix is used for decoding of the LDPC code, an architecture of performing P check node operations and P variable node operations at the same time can be employed for decoding the LDPC code as will be described later.

<New LDPC Code>

Incidentally, a terrestrial digital television broadcasting standard called ATSC 3.0 is currently pending.

In this regard, a novel LDPC code which can be used in ATSC 3.0 and other data transmission (hereinafter referred to as a new LDPC code) will be described.

For example, the LDPC code of the DVB scheme or the LDPC code of the ETRI scheme having the unit size P of 360, similarly to DVB-T.2 or the like, and corresponding to the parity check matrix having the cyclic structure can be employed as the new LDPC code.

The LDPC encoder 115 (FIGS. 8 and 18) can perform LDPC encoding for generating a new LDPC code using the parity check matrix obtained from the parity check matrix initial value table of the new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits or 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is any of 5/15, 6,15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12/15, and 13/15.

In this case, the storage unit 602 of the LDPC encoder 115 (FIG. 8) stores the parity check matrix initial value of the new LDPC code.

FIG. 30 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 8/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIG. 31 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 10/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIG. 32 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 12/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIGS. 33, 34, and 35 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 7/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIG. 34 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 33, and FIG. 35 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 34.

FIGS. 36, 37, and 38 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 9/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIG. 37 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 36, and FIG. 38 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 37.

FIGS. 39, 40, 41, and 42 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 11/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIG. 40 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 39, and FIG. 41 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 40.

FIGS. 43, 44, 45, and 46 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 13/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15)), proposed by the applicant of the present application.

FIG. 44 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 43, and FIG. 45 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 44.

FIGS. 47 and 48 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 6/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Samsung symbol (64 k, 6/15)), proposed by Samsung.

FIG. 48 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 47.

FIGS. 49, 50, and 51 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 8/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Samsung symbol (64 k, 8/15)), proposed by Samsung.

FIG. 50 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 49, and FIG. 51 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 50.

FIGS. 52, 53, and 54 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 12/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as Samsung symbol (64 k, 12/15)), proposed by Samsung.

FIG. 53 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 52, and FIG. 54 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 53.

FIG. 55 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 6/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15)), proposed by LG Electronics Inc.

FIG. 56 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 7/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE symbol (16 k, 7/15)), proposed by LG Electronics Inc.

FIG. 57 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 9/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE symbol (16 k, 9/15)), proposed by LG Electronics Inc.

FIG. 58 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 11/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE symbol (16 k, 11/15)), proposed by LG Electronics Inc.

FIG. 59 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 13/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE symbol (16 k, 13/15)), proposed by LG Electronics Inc.

FIGS. 60, 61, and 62 are an illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 10/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as LGE symbol (64 k, 10/15)), proposed by LG Electronics Inc.

FIG. 61 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 60, and FIG. 62 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 61.

FIGS. 63, 64, and 65 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the DVB scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 9/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as NERC symbol (64 k, 9/15)), proposed by NERC.

FIG. 64 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 63, and FIG. 65 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 64.

FIG. 66 is an illustration of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 5/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as ETRI symbol (16 k, 5/15)), proposed by CRC/ETRI.

FIGS. 67 and 68 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 5/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15)), proposed by CRC/ETRI.

FIG. 68 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 67.

FIGS. 69 and 70 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 6/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as ETRI symbol (64 k, 6/15)), proposed by CRC/ETRI.

FIG. 70 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 69.

FIGS. 71 and 72 are illustrations of an example of a parity check matrix initial value table of the ETRI scheme for a parity check matrix of a new LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits, and the encoding rate r is 7/15 (hereinafter, also referred to as ETRI symbol (64 k, 7/15)), proposed by CRC/ETRI.

FIG. 72 is an illustration subsequent to FIG. 71.

Among the new LDPC codes, the Sony symbol is an LDPC code having particularly excellent performance.

Here, the LDPC code of good performance is an LDPC code obtained from an appropriate parity check matrix H.

The appropriate parity check matrix H is, for example, a parity check matrix that satisfies a predetermined condition to make BER (and FER) smaller when an LDPC code obtained from the parity check matrix H is transmitted at low E_(s)/N_(o) or E_(b)/N_(o) (signal-to-noise power ratio per bit).

For example, the appropriate parity check matrix H can be found by performing simulation to measure BER when LDPC codes obtained from various parity check matrices that satisfy a predetermined condition are transmitted at low E_(s)/N_(o).

As a predetermined condition to be satisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H, for example, an analysis result obtained by a code performance analysis method called density evolution (Density Evolution) is excellent, and a loop of elements of 1 does not exist, which is called cycle 4, and so on.

Here, in the information matrix H_(A), it is known that the decoding performance of LDPC code is deteriorated when elements of 1 are dense like cycle 4, and therefore it is requested that cycle 4 does not exist, as a predetermined condition to be satisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H.

Here, the predetermined condition to be satisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H can be arbitrarily determined from the viewpoint of the improvement in the decoding performance of LDPC code and the facilitation (simplification) of decoding processing of LDPC code, and so on.

FIG. 73 and FIG. 74 are diagrams to describe the density evolution that can obtain an analytical result as a predetermined condition to be satisfied by the appropriate parity check matrix H.

The density evolution is a code analysis method that calculates the expectation value of the error probability of the entire LDPC code (ensemble) with a code length N of ∞ characterized by a degree sequence described later.

For example, when the dispersion value of noise is gradually increased from 0 on the AWGN channel, the expectation value of the error probability of a certain ensemble is 0 first, but, when the dispersion value of noise becomes equal to or greater than a certain threshold, it is not 0.

According to the density evolution, by comparison of the threshold of the dispersion value of noise (which may also be called a performance threshold) in which the expectation value of the error probability is not 0, it is possible to decide the quality of ensemble performance (appropriateness of the parity check matrix).

Here, as for a specific LDPC code, when an ensemble to which the LDPC code belongs is decided and density evolution is performed for the ensemble, rough performance of the LDPC code can be expected.

Therefore, if an ensemble of good performance is found, an LDPC code of good performance can be found from LDPC codes belonging to the ensemble.

Here, the above-mentioned degree sequence shows at what percentage a variable node or check node having the weight of each value exists with respect to the code length N of an LDPC code.

For example, a regular (3,6) LDPC code with an encoding rate of 1/2 belongs to an ensemble characterized by a degree sequence in which the weight (column weight) of all variable nodes is 3 and the weight (row weight) of all check nodes is 6.

FIG. 73 illustrates a Tanner graph of such an ensemble.

In the Tanner graph of FIG. 73, there are variable nodes shown by circles (sign O) in the diagram only by N pieces equal to the code length N, and there are check nodes shown by quadrangles (sign □) only by N/2 pieces equal to a multiplication value multiplying encoding rate 1/2 by the code length N.

Three branches (edge) equal to the column weight are connected with each variable node, and therefore there are totally 3N branches connected with N variable nodes.

Moreover, six branches (edge) equal to the row weight are connected with each check node, and therefore there are totally 3N branches connected with N/2 check nodes.

In addition, there is one interleaver in the Tanner graph in FIG. 73.

The interleaver randomly rearranges 3N branches connected with N variable nodes and connects each rearranged branch with any of 3N branches connected with N/2 check nodes.

There are (3N)! (=(3N)×(3N−1)× . . . ×1) rearrangement patterns to rearrange 3N branches connected with N variable nodes in the interleaver. Therefore, an ensemble characterized by the degree sequence in which the weight of all variable nodes is 3 and the weight of all check nodes is 6, becomes aggregation of (3N)! LDPC codes.

In simulation to find an LDPC code of good performance (appropriate parity check matrix), an ensemble of a multi-edge type is used in the density evolution.

In the multi edge type, an interleaver through which the branches connected with the variable nodes and the branches connected with the check nodes pass, is divided into plural (multi edge), and, by this means, the ensemble is characterized more strictly.

FIG. 74 illustrates an example of a Tanner graph of an ensemble of the multi-edge type.

In the Tanner graph of FIG. 74, there are two interleavers of the first interleaver and the second interleaver.

Moreover, in the Tanner graph chart of FIG. 74, v1 variable nodes with one branch connected with the first interleaver and no branch connected with the second interleaver exist, v2 variable nodes with one branch connected with the first interleaver and two branches connected with the second interleaver exist, and v3 variable nodes with no branch connected with the first interleaver and two branches connected with the second interleaver exist, respectively.

Furthermore, in the Tanner graph chart of FIG. 74, c1 check nodes with two branches connected with the first interleaver and no branch connected with the second interleaver exist, c2 check nodes with two branches connected with the first interleaver and two branches connected with the second interleaver exist, and c3 check nodes with no branch connected with the first interleaver and three branches connected with the second interleaver exist, respectively.

Here, for example, the density evolution and the mounting thereof are described in “On the Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes within 0.0045 dB of the Shannon Limit”, S. Y. Chung, G. D. Forney, T. J. Richardson, R. Urbanke, IEEE Communications Leggers, VOL. 5, NO. 2, February 2001.

In simulation to find (a parity check matrix initial value table of) a Sony code, by the density evaluation of the multi-edge type, an ensemble in which a performance threshold that is E_(b)/N_(o) (signal-to-noise power ratio per bit) with deteriorating (decreasing) BER is equal to or less than a predetermined value is found, and an LDPC code that decreases BER in a case using one or more orthogonal modulations such as QPSK is selected from LDPC codes belonging to the ensemble as an LDPC code of good performance.

The parity check matrix initial value table of the Sony code is found from the above-mentioned simulation.

Thus, according to the Sony symbol obtained from the parity check matrix initial value table, it is possible to secure the excellent communication quality in the data transmission.

FIG. 75 is an illustration of parity check matrices H (hereinafter, also referred to as “parity check matrices H of Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15)”) obtained from the parity check matrix initial value table of the Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

Every minimum cycle length of the parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15) has a value exceeding cycle 4, and thus there is no cycle 4 (a loop of 1 elements in which a loop length is 4). Here, the minimum cycle length (girth) is a minimum value of a length (a loop length) of a loop configured with 1 elements in the parity check matrix H.

A performance threshold value of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) is set to 0.805765, a performance threshold value of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) is set to 2.471011, and a performance threshold value of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) is set to 4.269922.

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15) starting from the 1st column, the column weight is set to X2 for KX2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y1 for KY1 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y2 for KY2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to 2 for M−1 columns subsequent thereto, and the column weight is set to 1 for the last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N(=16200 bits) of the Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated in FIG. 75.

In the parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), similarly to the parity check matrix described above with reference to FIGS. 12 and 13, columns closer to the head side (the left side) have higher column weights, and thus a code bit at the head of the Sony symbol tends to be robust to error (have error tolerance).

According to the simulation conducted by the applicant of the present application, an excellent BER/FER is obtained for the Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15), and thus it is possible to secure the excellent communication quality in the data transmission using the Sony symbols (16 k, 8/15), (16 k, 10/15), and (16 k, 12/15).

FIG. 76 is an illustration of parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15).

Every minimum cycle length of the parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15) has a value exceeding a cycle 4, and thus there is no cycle 4.

A performance threshold value of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) is set to −0.093751, a performance threshold value of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) is set to 1.658523, a performance threshold value of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) is set to 3.351930, and a performance threshold value of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) is set to 5.301749.

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15) starting from the 1st column, the column weight is set to X2 for KX2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y1 for KY1 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y2 for KY2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to 2 for M−1 columns subsequent thereto, and the column weight is set to 1 for the last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N(=64800 bits) of the Sony symbols (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated in FIG. 76.

In the parity check matrices H of the Sony symbols (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15), similarly to the parity check matrix described above with reference to FIGS. 12 and 13, columns closer to the head side (the left side) have higher column weights, and thus a code bit at the head of the Sony symbol tends to be robust to error (have error tolerance).

According to the simulation conducted by the applicant of the present application, an excellent BER/FER is obtained for the Sony symbols (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15), and thus it is possible to secure the excellent communication quality in the data transmission using the Sony symbols (64 k, 7/15), (64 k, 9/15), (64 k, 11/15), and (64 k, 13/15).

FIG. 77 is an illustration of parity check matrices H of Samsung symbols (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15).

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity check matrices H of the Samsung symbols (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15) starting from the 1st column, the column weight is set to X2 for KX2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y1 for KY1 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y2 for KY2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to 2 for M−1 columns subsequent thereto, and the column weight is set to 1 for the last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N(=64800 bits) of the Samsung symbols (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the Samsung symbols (64 k, 6/15), (64 k, 8/15), and (64 k, 12/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated in FIG. 77.

FIG. 78 is an illustration of parity check matrices H of the LGE symbols (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and (16 k, 13/15).

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity check matrices H of the LGE symbols (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and (16 k, 13/15) starting from the 1st column, the column weight is set to X2 for KX2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y1 for KY1 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y2 for KY2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to 2 for M−1 columns subsequent thereto, and the column weight is set to 1 for the last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N(=16200 bits) of the LGE symbols (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and (16 k, 13/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the LGE symbols (16 k, 6/15), (16 k, 7/15), (16 k, 9/15), (16 k, 11/15), and (16 k, 13/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated in FIG. 78.

FIG. 79 is an illustration of parity check matrices H of the LGE symbols (64 k, 10/15).

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity check matrices H of the LGE symbols (64 k, 10/15) starting from the 1st column, the column weight is set to X2 for KX2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y1 for KY1 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y2 for KY2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to 2 for M−1 columns subsequent thereto, and the column weight is set to 1 for the last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N(=64800 bits) of the LGE symbols (64 k, 10/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the LGE symbols (64 k, 10/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated in FIG. 79.

FIG. 80 is an illustration of parity check matrices H of the NERC symbols (64 k, 9/15).

The column weight is set to X1 for KX1 columns of the parity check matrices H of the NERC symbols (64 k, 9/15) starting from the 1st column, the column weight is set to X2 for KX2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y1 for KY1 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to Y2 for KY2 columns subsequent thereto, the column weight is set to 2 for M−1 columns subsequent thereto, and the column weight is set to 1 for the last column.

Here, KX1+KX2+KY1+KY2+M−1+1 is equal to the code length N(=64800 bits) of the NERC symbols (64 k, 9/15).

In the parity check matrices H of the NERC symbols (64 k, 9/15), the numbers KX1, KX2, KY1, KY2, and M of columns and column weights X1, X2, Y1, and Y2 are set as illustrated in FIG. 80.

FIG. 81 is an illustration of a parity check matrix H of an ETRI symbol (16 k, 5/15).

For the parity check matrix H of the ETRI symbol (16 k, 5/15), the parameter g=M₁ is 720.

Further, for the ETRI symbol (16 k, 5/15), since the code length N is 16200 and the encoding rate r is 5/15, the information length K=N×r is 16200×5/15=5400 and the parity length M=N−K is 16200−5400=10800.

Further, the parameter M₂=M−M₁=N−K−g is 10800−720=10080.

Thus, the parameter Q₁=M₁/P is 720/360=2, and the parameter Q₂=M₂/P is 10080/360=28.

FIG. 82 is an illustration of parity check matrices H of ETRI symbols of (64 k, 5/15), (64 k, 6/15), and (64 k, 7/15).

For the parity check matrices H of the ETRI symbols of (64 k, 5/15), (64 k, 6/15), and (64 k, 7/15), the parameters g=M₁, M₂, Q₁, and Q₂ are set as illustrated in FIG. 82.

<Constellation>

FIGS. 83 to 104 are illustrations of examples of constellation types employed in the transmission system of FIG. 7.

In the transmission system of FIG. 7, for example, a constellation used in MODCOD can be set to MODCOD serving as a combination of a modulation scheme and an LDPC code.

In other words, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, for example, the LDPC codes can be classified into 9 types of LDPC codes in which the encoding rate r is 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15 according to the encoding rate r (regardless of the code length N), and a combination of the 9 types of LDPC codes (each of the LDPC codes in which the encoding rate r is 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) and each modulation scheme can be employed as MODCOD.

Further, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, one or more of constellations can be set to MODCOD of 1 using the modulation scheme of MODCOD.

The constellations include uniform constellations (UCs) in which an arrangement of signal points is uniform, and non uniform constellations (NUCs) in which an arrangement of signal points is not uniform.

Examples of NUCs include a constellation called a 1-dimensional M²-QAM non-uniform constellation (1D NUC) and a constellation called a 2-dimensional QQAM non-uniform constellation (2D NUC).

Commonly, the 1D NUC is better in the BER than the UC, and the 2D NUC is better in the BER than the 1D NUC.

A constellation in which the modulation scheme is QPSK is the UC. For example, the 2D NUC can be employed as the constellation in which the modulation scheme is 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, or the like, and for example, the 1D NUC can be employed as the constellation in which the modulation scheme is 1024QAM, 4096QAM, or the like.

Hereinafter, a constellation of an NUC used in MODCOD in which the modulation scheme is a modulation scheme in which an m-bit symbol is mapped to any of 2^(m) signal points, and an encoding rate of an LDPC is r is also referred to as NUC_2^(m)_r.

For example, “NUC_16_6/15” indicates a constellation of an NUC used in MODCOD in which the modulation scheme is 16QAM (or the modulation scheme in which a symbol is mapped to any of 16 signal points), and the encoding rate r of the LDPC code is 6/15.

In the transmission system of FIG. 7, when the modulation scheme is QPSK, the same constellation is used for each encoding rate r of the LDPC code.

Further, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, when the modulation scheme is 16QAM, 64QAM, or 256QAM, a different constellation of a 2D NUC is used according to each encoding rate r of the LDPC code.

Further, in the transmission system of FIG. 7, when the modulation scheme is 1024QAM or 4096QAM, a different constellation of a 1D NUC is used according to each encoding rate r of the LDPC code.

Thus, as described above, when the LDPC codes are classified into the 9 types of LDPC codes of r=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, 13/15 according to the encoding rate r, one type of constellation is prepared for QPSK, 9 types of constellations of a 2D NUC are prepared for each of 16QAM, 64QAM, and 256QAM, and 9 types of constellations of a 1D NUC are prepared for each of 1024QAM and 4096QAM.

FIG. 83 is an illustration of an example of a constellation of a 2D NUC for each of 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 16QAM.

FIG. 84 is an illustration of an example of a constellation of a 2D NUC for each of 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 64QAM.

FIG. 85 is an illustration of an example of a constellation of a 2D NUC for each of 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 256QAM.

FIG. 86 is an illustration of an example of a constellation of a 1D NUC for each of 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 1024QAM.

FIG. 87 and FIG. 88 are illustrations of examples of a constellation of a 1D NUC for each of 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 4096QAM.

In FIGS. 83 to 88, a horizontal axis and a vertical axis are an I axis and a Q axis, and Re{x₁} and Im{x₁} indicate a real part and an imaginary part of a signal point x₁ serving as coordinates of the signal point x₁.

In FIGS. 83 to 88, a numerical value written after “for CR” indicates the encoding rate r of the LDPC code.

FIG. 89 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of a signal point of a UC that is used in common to 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is QPSK.

In FIG. 89, “Input cell word y” indicates a 2-bit symbol that is mapped to a UC of QPSK, and “Constellation point z_(q)” indicates coordinates a signal point z_(q). An index q of the signal point z_(q) indicates a discrete time (a time interval between a certain symbol and a next symbol) of a symbol.

In FIG. 89, coordinates of the signal point z_(q) are indicated in the form of a complex number, in which i indicates an imaginary unit (√(−1)).

FIG. 90 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of the signal point of the 2D NUC of FIG. 83 used for the 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 16QAM.

FIG. 91 is an illustration of an example of coordinates of the signal point of the 2D NUC of FIG. 84 used for the 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 64QAM.

FIGS. 92 and 93 are illustrations of an example of coordinates of the signal point of the 2D NUC of FIG. 85 used for the 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12,15, and 13/15) of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 256QAM.

In FIGS. 90 to 93, NUC_2^(m)_r indicates coordinates of a signal point of a 2D NUC used when the modulation scheme is 2^(m)QAM, and the encoding rate of the LDPC code is r.

In FIGS. 90 to 93, similarly to FIG. 89, coordinates of the signal point z_(q) are indicated in the form of a complex number, in which i indicates an imaginary unit.

In FIGS. 90 to 93, w#k indicates coordinates of a signal point of a first quadrant of the constellation.

In the 2D NUC, a signal point of a second quadrant of the constellation is arranged at a position to which the signal point of the first quadrant has moved symmetrically to the Q axis, and a signal point of a third quadrant of the constellation is arranged at a position to which the signal point of the first quadrant has moved symmetrically to an origin. Further, a signal point of a fourth quadrant of the constellation is arranged at a position to which the signal point of the first quadrant has moved symmetrically to the I axis.

Here, when the modulation scheme is 2^(m)QAM, m bits are used as one symbol, and one symbol is mapped to a signal point corresponding to the symbol.

The m-bit symbol is expressed by, for example, an integer value of 0 to 2^(m)−1, but if b=2^(m)/4 is assumed, symbols y(0), y(1), . . . , and y(2^(m)−1) expressed by the integer value of 0 to 2^(m)−1 can be classified into four symbols y(0) to y(b−1), y(b) to y(2b−1), y(2b) to y(3b−1), and y(3b) to y(4b−1).

In FIGS. 90 to 93, a suffix k of w#k has an integer value within a range of 0 to b−1, and w#k indicates coordinates of a signal point corresponding to the symbol y(k) within the range of the symbols y(0) to y(b−1).

Further, coordinates of a signal point corresponding to the symbol y(k+b) within the range of the symbols y(b) to y(2b−1) are indicated by −conj(w#k), and coordinates of a signal point corresponding to the symbol y(k+2b) within the range of the symbols y(2b) to y(3b−1) are indicated by conj(w#k). Further, coordinates of a signal point corresponding to the symbol y(k+3b) within the range of the symbols y(3b) to y(4b−1) are indicated by −w#k.

Here, conj(w#k) indicates a complex conjugate of w#k.

For example, when the modulation scheme is 16QAM, the symbols y(0), y(1), . . . , and y(15) of m=4 bits are classified into four symbols y(0) to y(3), y(4) to y(7), y(8) to y(11), and y(12) to y(15) if b=24/4=4.

Among the symbols y(0) to y(15), for example, the symbol y(12) is the symbol y(k+3b)=y(0+3×4) within the symbols y(3b) to y(4b−1), and k is zero (0), and thus the coordinates of the signal point corresponding to the symbol y(12) are −w#k=−w0.

Now, for example, if the encoding rate r of the LDPC code is 9/15, according to FIG. 90, when the modulation scheme is 16QAM, and the encoding rate r is 9/15, w0 of (NUC_16_9/15) is 0.4967+1.1932i, and thus the coordinates −w0 of the signal point corresponding to the symbol y(12) are −(0.4967+1.1932i).

FIG. 94 is an illustration of an example of the coordinates of the signal point of the 1D NUC of FIG. 86 used for the 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 1024QAM.

In FIG. 94, a column of NUC_1 k_r indicates a value of u#k indicating the coordinates of the signal point of the 1D NUC used when the modulation scheme is 1024QAM, and the encoding rate of the LDPC code is r.

u#k indicates the real part Re(z_(q)) and the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) of the complex number serving as the coordinates of the signal point z_(q) of the 1D NUC.

FIG. 95 is an illustration of a relation between the symbol y of 1024QAM and u#k serving as each of the real part Re(z_(q)) and the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) of the complex number indicating the coordinates of the signal point z_(q) of the 1D NUC corresponding to the symbol y.

Now, the 10-bit symbol y of 1024QAM is assumed to be indicated by y_(0,q), y_(1,q), y_(2,q), y_(3,q), y_(4,q), y_(5,q), y_(6,q), y_(7,q), y_(8,q), and y_(9,q) from the first bit (the most significant bit).

A of FIG. 95 illustrates a correspondence relation between 5 odd-numbered bits y_(0,q), y_(2,q), y_(4,q), y_(6,q), y_(8,q) of the symbol y and u#k indicating the real part Re(z_(q)) (of the coordinates) of the signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y.

B of FIG. 95 is a correspondence relation between 5 even-numbered bits y_(1,q), y_(3,q), y_(5,q), y_(7,q), and y_(9,q) of the symbol y and u#k indicating the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) (of the coordinates) of the signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y.

For example, when the 10-bit symbol y=y_(1,q), y_(2,q), y_(3,q), y_(4,q), y_(5,q), y_(6,q), y_(7,q), y_(8,q), y_(9,q)) of 1024QAM is (0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0), the 5 odd-numbered bits (y_(0,q), y_(2,q), y_(4,q), y_(6,q), y_(8,q)) are (0, 1, 0, 1, 0), and the 5 even-numbered bits (y_(1,q), y_(3,q), y_(5,q), y_(7,q), and y_(9,q)) are (0, 0, 1, 1, 0).

In A of FIG. 95, the 5 odd-numbered bits (0, 1, 0, 1, 0) are associated with u3, and thus the real part Re(z_(q)) of the signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) is u3.

In B of FIG. 95, the 5 even-numbered bits (0, 0, 1, 1, 0) are associated with u11, and thus the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) of the signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) is u11.

Meanwhile, for example, if the encoding rate r of the LDPC code is 7/15, according to FIG. 94, for the 1D NUC (NUC_1 k_7/15) used when the modulation scheme is 1024QAM and the encoding rater of the LDPC code is 7/15, u3 is 1.1963, and u11 is 6.9391.

Thus, the real part Re(z_(q)) of the signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) is u3 (=1.1963), and Im(z_(q)) is u11 (=6.9391). As a result, the coordinates of the signal point z_(q) corresponding to the symbol y=(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0) are indicated by 1.1963+6.9391i.

FIG. 96 is an illustration of an example of the coordinates of the signal point of the 1D NUC of FIGS. 87 and 88 used for the 9 types of encoding rates r (=5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15) of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 4096QAM.

In FIG. 96, each column indicates a value of u#k indicating the coordinates of the signal point of the 1D NUC used when the modulation scheme is 4096QAM and the encoding rates r of the LDPC codes are 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15, 9/15, 10/15, 11/15, 12, 15, and 13/15.

u#k indicates the real part Re(z_(q)) and the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) of the complex number serving as the coordinates of the signal point z_(q) of the 1D NUC.

FIG. 97 is an illustration of a relation between the symbol y of 4096QAM and u#k serving as each of the real part Re(z_(q)) and the imaginary part Im(z_(q)) of the complex number indicating the coordinates of the signal point z_(q) of the 1D NUC corresponding to the symbol y.

A method of obtaining the coordinates of the signal point of the 1D NUC of 4096QAM using FIGS. 96 and 97 is the same as the method of obtaining the coordinates of the signal point of the 1D NUC of 1024QAM using FIGS. 94 and 95, and thus a description thereof is omitted.

FIG. 98 is an illustration of another example of the constellation of the 2D NUC for each of the 9 types of encoding rates r of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 16QAM.

FIG. 99 is an illustration of another example of the constellation of the 2D NUC for each of the 9 types of encoding rates r of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 64QAM.

FIG. 100 is an illustration of another example of the constellation of the 2D NUC for each of the 9 types of encoding rates r of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 256QAM.

In FIGS. 98 to 100, similarly to FIGS. 83 to 88, a horizontal axis and a vertical axis are the I axis and the Q axis, and Re{x₁} and Im{x₁} indicate the real part and the imaginary part of the signal point x₁ serving as the coordinates of the signal point x₁. Further, in FIGS. 98 to 100, a numerical value written after “for CR” indicates the encoding rate r of the LDPC code.

FIG. 101 is an illustration of another example of the coordinates of the signal point of the 2D NUC of FIG. 98 used for each of the 9 types of encoding rates r of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 16QAM.

FIG. 102 is an illustration of another example of the coordinates of the signal point of the 2D NUC of FIG. 99 used for each of the 9 types of encoding rates r of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 64QAM.

FIGS. 103 and 104 are illustrations of another example of the coordinates of the signal point of the 2D NUC of FIG. 100 used for each of the 9 types of encoding rates r of the LDPC codes when the modulation scheme is 256QAM.

In FIGS. 101 to 104, NUC 2 ^(m)_r indicates the coordinates of the signal point of the 2D NUC used when the modulation scheme is 2^(m)QAM, and the encoding rate of the LDPC code is r, similarly to FIGS. 90 to 93.

The signal points of the 1D NUC are arranged in a grid form on a straight line parallel to the I axis or a straight line parallel to the Q axis. However, an interval between the signal points is not constant. Further, when the signal point (the mapped data) is transmitted, average power of the signal points on the constellation is normalized. The normalization is performed by multiplying each signal point z_(q) on the constellation by a reciprocal 1/(√P_(ave)) of a square root √P_(ave) of a root mean square value P_(ave) when a root mean square value of an absolute value for (coordinates of) all signal points on the constellation is indicated by P_(ave).

According to the constellations described above with reference to FIGS. 83 to 104, it is confirmed that the excellent error rate is obtained.

<Block Interleaver 25>

FIG. 105 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the block interleaver 25 of FIG. 9.

The block interleaver 25 includes a storage region called a part 1 and a storage region called a part 2.

Each of the parts 1 and 2 is configured such that a number C of columns equal in number to the number m of bits of the symbol and serving as storage regions that store one bit in the row (horizontal) direction and store a predetermined number of bits in the column (vertical) direction are arranged.

If the number of bits (hereinafter, also referred to as a part column length) that are stored in the column direction by the column of the part 1 is indicated by R1, and the part column length of the column of the part 2 is indicated by R2, (R1+R2)×C is equal to the code length N (64800 bits or 16200 bits in the present embodiment) of the LDPC code of the block interleave target.

Further, the part column length R1 is equal to a multiple of 360 bits serving as the unit size P, and the part column length R2 is equal to a remainder when a sum (hereinafter, also referred to as a column length) R1+R2 of the part column length R1 of the part 1 and the part column length R2 of the part 2 is divided by 360 bits serving as the unit size P.

Here, the column length R1+R2 is equal to a value obtained by dividing the code length N of the LDPC code of the block interleave target by the number m of bits of the symbol.

For example, when 16QAM is employed as the modulation scheme for the LDPC code in which the code length N is 16200 bits, the number m of bits of the symbol is 4 bits, and thus the column length R1+R2 is 4050 (=16200/4) bits.

Further, since the remainder when the column length R1+R2=4050 is divided by 360 bits serving as the unit size P is 90, the part column length R2 of the part 2 is 90 bits.

Further, the part column length R1 of the part 1 is R1+R2−R2=4050-90=3960 bits.

FIG. 106 is an illustration of the number C of columns of the parts 1 and 2 and the part column lengths (the number of rows) R1 and R2 for a combination of the code length N and the modulation scheme.

FIG. 106 illustrates the number C of columns of the parts 1 and 2 and the part column lengths R1 and R2 for combinations of the LDPC code in which the code length N is 16200 bits and the LDPC code in which the code length N is 64800 bits and the modulation schemes of QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM, and 4096QAM.

FIG. 107 is an illustration of the block interleave performed by the block interleaver 25 of FIG. 105.

The block interleaver 25 performs the block interleave by writing the LDPC code in the parts 1 and 2 and reading the LDPC code from the parts 1 and 2.

In other words, in the block interleave, writing of the code bits of the LDPC code of one code word downward (in the column direction) in the column of the part 1 is performed from the column at the left side to the column at the right side as illustrated in A of FIG. 107.

Then, when the writing of the code bits is completed to the bottom of the rightmost column (a C-th column) of the columns of the part 1, writing of the remaining code bits downward (in the column direction) in the column of the part 2 is performed from the column at the left side to the column at the right side.

Thereafter, when the writing of the code bits is completed to the bottom of the rightmost column (the C-th column) of the columns of the part 2, the code bits are read from the 1st rows of all the C columns of the part 1 in the row direction in units of C=m bits.

Then, the reading of the code bits from all the C columns of the part 1 is sequentially performed toward a row therebelow, and when the reading is completed up to an R1-th row serving as the last row, the code bits are read from the 1st rows of all the C columns of the part 2 in the row direction in units of C=m bits.

The reading of the code bits from all the C columns of the part 2 is sequentially performed toward a row therebelow and the reading is performed up to an R2 row serving as the last row.

As a result, the code bits read from the parts 1 and 2 in units of m bits are supplied to the mapper 117 (FIG. 8) as the symbol.

<Group-Wise Interleave>

FIG. 108 is an illustration of the group-wise interleave performed by the group-wise interleaver 24 of FIG. 9.

In the group-wise interleave, 360 bits of one segment are used as the bit group, where the LDPC code of one code word is divided into segments in units of 360 bits equal to the unit size P, and the LDPC code of one code word is interleaved according to a predetermined pattern (hereinafter, also referred to as a GW pattern), starting from the head.

Here, when the LDPC code of one code word is segmented into the bit groups, an (i+1)-th bit group from the head is also referred to as a bit group i.

When the unit size P is 360, for example, the LDPC code in which the code length N is 1800 bits is segmented into bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, that is, 5 (=1800/360) bit groups. Further, for example, the LDPC code in which the code length N is 16200 bits is segmented into bit groups 0, 1, . . . , and 44, that is, 45 (=16200/360) bit groups, and the LDPC code in which the code length N is 64800 bits is segmented into bit groups 0, 1, . . . , and 179, that is, 180 (=64800/360) bit groups.

Hereinafter, the GW pattern is assumed to be indicated by a sequence of numbers indicating a bit group. For example, for the LDPC code in which the code length N is 1800 bits, for example, the GW pattern 4, 2, 0, 3, 1 indicates that a sequence of bit groups 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 is interleaved (rearranged) into a sequence of bit groups 4, 2, 0, 3, and 1.

The GW pattern can be set at least for each code length N of the LDPC code.

<Example of GW Pattern for LDPC Code of 64 Kbits>

FIG. 109 is an illustration of a 1st example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 109, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

39, 47, 96, 176, 33, 75, 165, 38, 27, 58, 90, 76, 17, 46, 10, 91, 133, 69, 171, 32, 117, 78, 13, 146, 101, 36, 0, 138, 25, 77, 122, 49, 14, 125, 140, 93, 130, 2, 104, 102, 128, 4, 111, 151, 84, 167, 35, 127, 156, 55, 82, 85, 66, 114, 8, 147, 115, 113, 5, 31, 100, 106, 48, 52, 67, 107, 18, 126, 112, 50, 9, 143, 28, 160, 71, 79, 43, 98, 86, 94, 64, 3, 166, 105, 103, 118, 63, 51, 139, 172, 141, 175, 56, 74, 95, 29, 45, 129, 120, 168, 92, 150, 7, 162, 153, 137, 108, 159, 157, 173, 23, 89, 132, 57, 37, 70, 134, 40, 21, 149, 80, 1, 121, 59, 110, 142, 152, 15, 154, 145, 12, 170, 54, 155, 99, 22, 123, 72, 177, 131, 116, 44, 158, 73, 11, 65, 164, 119, 174, 34, 83, 53, 24, 42, 60, 26, 161, 68, 178, 41, 148, 109, 87, 144, 135, 20, 62, 81, 169, 124, 6, 19, 30, 163, 61, 179, 136, 97, 16, and 88.

FIG. 110 is an illustration of a 2nd example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 110, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

6, 14, 1, 127, 161, 177, 75, 123, 62, 103, 17, 18, 167, 88, 27, 34, 8, 110, 7,78,94, 44, 45, 166, 149, 61, 163, 145, 155, 157, 82, 130, 70, 92, 151, 139, 160, 133, 26, 2, 79, 15, 95, 122, 126, 178, 101, 24, 138, 146, 179, 30, 86, 58, 11, 121, 159, 49, 84, 132, 117, 119, 50, 52, 4, 51, 48, 74, 114, 59, 40, 131, 33, 89, 66, 136, 72, 16, 134, 37, 164, 77, 99, 173, 20, 158, 156, 90, 41, 176, 81, 42, 60, 109, 22, 150, 105, 120, 12, 64, 56, 68, 111, 21, 148, 53, 169, 97, 108, 35, 140, 91, 115, 152, 36, 106, 154, 0, 25, 54, 63, 172, 80, 168, 142, 118, 162, 135, 73, 83, 153, 141, 9, 28, 55, 31, 112, 107, 85, 100, 175, 23, 57, 47, 38, 170, 137, 76, 147, 93, 19, 98, 124, 39, 87, 174, 144, 46, 10, 129, 69, 71, 125, 96, 116, 171, 128, 65, 102, 5, 43, 143, 104, 13, 67, 29, 3, 113, 32, and 165.

FIG. 111 is an illustration of a 3rd example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 111, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

103, 116, 158, 0, 27, 73, 140, 30, 148, 36, 153, 154, 10, 174, 122, 178, 6, 106, 162, 59, 142, 112, 7, 74, 11, 51, 49, 72, 31, 65, 156, 95, 171, 105, 173, 168, 1, 155, 125, 82, 86, 161, 57, 165, 54, 26, 121, 25, 157, 93, 22, 34, 33, 39, 19, 46, 150, 141, 12, 9, 79, 118, 24, 17, 85, 117, 67, 58, 129, 160, 89, 61, 146, 77, 130, 102, 101, 137, 94, 69, 14, 133, 60, 149, 136, 16, 108, 41, 90, 28, 144, 13, 175, 114, 2, 18, 63, 68, 21, 109, 53, 123, 75, 81, 143, 169, 42, 119, 138, 104, 4, 131, 145, 8, 5, 76, 15, 88, 177, 124, 45, 97, 64, 100, 37, 132, 38, 44, 107, 35, 43, 80, 50, 91, 152, 78, 166, 55, 115, 170, 159, 147, 167, 87, 83, 29, 96, 172, 48, 98, 62, 139, 70, 164, 84, 47, 151, 134, 126, 113, 179, 110, 111, 128, 32, 52, 66, 40, 135, 176, 99, 127, 163, 3, 120, 71, 56, 92, 23, and 20.

FIG. 112 is an illustration of a 4th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 112, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

139, 106, 125, 81, 88, 104, 3, 66, 60, 65, 2, 95, 155, 24, 151, 5, 51, 53, 29, 75, 52, 85, 8, 22, 98, 93, 168, 15, 86, 126, 173, 100, 130, 176, 20, 10, 87, 92, 175, 36, 143, 110, 67, 146, 149, 127, 133, 42, 84, 64, 78, 1, 48, 159, 79, 138, 46, 112, 164, 31, 152, 57, 144, 69, 27, 136, 122, 170, 132, 171, 129, 115, 107, 134, 89, 157, 113, 119, 135, 45, 148, 83, 114, 71, 128, 161, 140, 26, 13, 59, 38, 35, 96, 28, 0, 80, 174, 137, 49, 16, 101, 74, 179, 91, 44, 55, 169, 131, 163, 123, 145, 162, 108, 178, 12, 77, 167, 21, 154, 82, 54, 90, 177, 17, 41, 39, 7, 102, 156, 62, 109, 14, 37, 23, 153, 6, 147, 50, 47, 63, 18, 70, 68, 124, 72, 33, 158, 32, 118, 99, 105, 94, 25, 121, 166, 120, 160, 141, 165, 111, 19, 150, 97, 76, 73, 142, 117, 4, 172, 58, 11, 30, 9, 103, 40, 61, 43, 34, 56, and 116.

FIG. 113 is an illustration of a 5th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 113, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

72, 59, 65, 61, 80, 2, 66, 23, 69, 101, 19, 16, 53, 109, 74, 106, 113, 56, 97, 30, 164, 15, 25, 20, 117, 76, 50, 82, 178, 13, 169, 36, 107, 40, 122, 138, 42, 96, 27, 163, 46, 64, 124, 57, 87, 120, 168, 166, 39, 177, 22, 67, 134, 9, 102, 28, 148, 91, 83, 88, 167, 32, 99, 140, 60, 152, 1, 123, 29, 154, 26, 70, 149, 171, 12, 6, 55, 100, 62, 86, 114, 174, 132, 139, 7, 45, 103, 130, 31, 49, 151, 119, 79, 41, 118, 126, 3, 179, 110, 111, 51, 93, 145, 73, 133, 54, 104, 161, 37, 129, 63, 38, 95, 159, 89, 112, 115, 136, 33, 68, 17, 35, 137, 173, 143, 78, 77, 141, 150, 58, 158, 125, 156, 24, 105, 98, 43, 84, 92, 128, 165, 153, 108, 0, 121, 170, 131, 144, 47, 157, 11, 155, 176, 48, 135, 4, 116, 146, 127, 52, 162, 142, 8, 5, 34, 85, 90, 44, 172, 94, 160, 175, 75, 71, 18, 147, 10, 21, 14, and 81.

FIG. 114 is an illustration of a 6th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 114, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

8, 27, 7, 70, 75, 84, 50, 131, 146, 99, 96, 141, 155, 157, 82, 57, 120, 38, 137, 13, 83, 23, 40, 9, 56, 171, 124, 172, 39, 142, 20, 128, 133, 2, 89, 153, 103, 112, 129, 151, 162, 106, 14, 62, 107, 110, 73, 71, 177, 154, 80, 176, 24, 91, 32, 173, 25, 16, 17, 159, 21, 92, 6, 67, 81, 37, 15, 136, 100, 64, 102, 163, 168, 18, 78, 76, 45, 140, 123, 118, 58, 122, 11, 19, 86, 98, 119, 111, 26, 138, 125, 74, 97, 63, 10, 152, 161, 175, 87, 52, 60, 22, 79, 104, 30, 158, 54, 145, 49, 34, 166, 109, 179, 174, 93, 41, 116, 48, 3, 29, 134, 167, 105, 132, 114, 169, 147, 144, 77, 61, 170, 90, 178, 0, 43, 149, 130, 117, 47, 44, 36, 115, 88, 101, 148, 69, 46, 94, 143, 164, 139, 126, 160, 156, 33, 113, 65, 121, 53, 42, 66, 165, 85, 127, 135, 5, 55, 150, 72, 35, 31, 51, 4, 1, 68, 12, 28, 95, 59, and 108.

FIG. 115 is an illustration of a 7th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 115, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

FIG. 116 is an illustration of an 8th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 116, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

11, 5, 8, 18, 1, 25, 32, 31, 19, 21, 50, 102, 65, 85, 45, 86, 98, 104, 64, 78, 72, 53, 103, 79, 93, 41, 82, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 4, 12, 15, 3, 10, 20, 26, 34, 23, 33, 68, 63, 69, 92, 44, 90, 75, 56, 100, 47, 106, 42, 39, 97, 99, 89, 52, 109, 113, 117, 121, 125, 129, 133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 6, 16, 14, 7, 13, 36, 28, 29, 37, 73, 70, 54, 76, 91, 66, 80, 88, 51, 96, 81, 95, 38, 57, 105, 107, 59, 61, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 0, 9, 17, 2, 27, 30, 24, 22, 35, 77, 74, 46, 94, 62, 87, 83, 101, 49, 43, 84, 48, 60, 67, 71, 58, 40, 55, 111, 115, 119, 123, 127, 131, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163, 167, 171, 175, and 179.

FIG. 117 is an illustration of a 9th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 117, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

9, 18, 15, 13, 35, 26, 28, 99, 40, 68, 85, 58, 63, 104, 50, 52, 94, 69, 108, 114, 120, 126, 132, 138, 144, 150, 156, 162, 168, 174, 8, 16, 17, 24, 37, 23, 22, 103, 64, 43, 47, 56, 92, 59, 70, 42, 106, 60, 109, 115, 121, 127, 133, 139, 145, 151, 157, 163, 169, 175, 4, 1, 10, 19, 30, 31, 89, 86, 77, 81, 51, 79, 83, 48, 45, 62, 67, 65, 110, 116, 122, 128, 134, 140, 146, 152, 158, 164, 170, 176, 6, 2, 0, 25, 20, 34, 98, 105, 82, 96, 90, 107, 53, 74, 73, 93, 55, 102, 111, 117, 123, 129, 135, 141, 147, 153, 159, 165, 171, 177, 14, 7, 3, 27, 21, 33, 44, 97, 38, 75, 72, 41, 84, 80, 100, 87, 76, 57, 112, 118, 124, 130, 136, 142, 148, 154, 160, 166, 172, 178, 5, 11, 12, 32, 29, 36, 88, 71, 78, 95, 49, 54, 61, 66, 46, 39, 101, 91, 113, 119, 125, 131, 137, 143, 149, 155, 161, 167, 173, and 179.

FIG. 118 is an illustration of a 10th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 118, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

0, 14, 19, 21, 2, 11, 22, 9, 8, 7, 16, 3, 26, 24, 27, 80, 100, 121, 107, 31, 36, 42, 46, 49, 75, 93, 127, 95, 119, 73, 61, 63, 117, 89, 99, 129, 52, 111, 124, 48, 122, 82, 106, 91, 92, 71, 103, 102, 81, 113, 101, 97, 33, 115, 59, 112, 90, 51, 126, 85, 123, 40, 83, 53, 69, 70, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 4, 5, 10, 12, 20, 6, 18, 13, 17, 15, 1, 29, 28, 23, 25, 67, 116, 66, 104, 44, 50, 47, 84, 76, 65, 130, 56, 128, 77, 39, 94, 87, 120, 62, 88, 74, 35, 110, 131, 98, 60, 37, 45, 78, 125, 41, 34, 118, 38, 72, 108, 58, 43, 109, 57, 105, 68, 86, 79, 96, 32, 114, 64, 55, 30, 54, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

FIG. 119 is an illustration of an 11th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 119, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

21, 11, 12, 9, 0, 6, 24, 25, 85, 103, 118, 122, 71, 101, 41, 93, 55, 73, 100, 40, 106, 119, 45, 80, 128, 68, 129, 61, 124, 36, 126, 117, 114, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 20, 18, 10, 13, 16, 8, 26, 27, 54, 111, 52, 44, 87, 113, 115, 58, 116, 49, 77, 95, 86, 30, 78, 81, 56, 125, 53, 89, 94, 50, 123, 65, 83, 133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 2, 17, 1, 4, 7, 15, 29, 82, 32, 102, 76, 121, 92, 130, 127, 62, 107, 38, 46, 43, 110, 75, 104, 70, 91, 69, 96, 120, 42, 34, 79, 35, 105, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 19, 5, 3, 14, 22, 28, 23, 109, 51, 108, 131, 33, 84, 88, 64, 63, 59, 57, 97, 98, 48, 31, 99, 37, 72, 39, 74, 66, 60, 67, 47, 112, 90, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163, 167, 171, 175, and 179.

FIG. 120 is an illustration of a 12th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 120, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

12, 15, 2, 16, 27, 50, 35, 74, 38, 70, 108, 32, 112, 54, 30, 122, 72, 116, 36, 90, 49, 85, 132, 138, 144, 150, 156, 162, 168, 174, 0, 14, 9, 5, 23, 66, 68, 52, 96, 117, 84, 128, 100, 63, 60, 127, 81, 99, 53, 55, 103, 95, 133, 139, 145, 151, 157, 163, 169, 175, 10, 22, 13, 11, 28, 104, 37, 57, 115, 46, 65, 129, 107, 75, 119, 110, 31, 43, 97, 78, 125, 58, 134, 140, 146, 152, 158, 164, 170, 176, 4, 19, 6, 8, 24, 44, 101, 94, 118, 130, 69, 71, 83, 34, 86, 124, 48, 106, 89, 40, 102, 91, 135, 141, 147, 153, 159, 165, 171, 177, 3, 20, 7, 17, 25, 87, 41, 120, 47, 80, 59, 62, 88, 45, 56, 131, 61, 126, 113, 92, 51, 98, 136, 142, 148, 154, 160, 166, 172, 178, 21, 18, 1, 26, 29, 39, 73, 121, 105, 77, 42, 114, 93, 82, 111, 109, 67, 79, 123, 64, 76, 33, 137, 143, 149, 155, 161, 167, 173, and 179.

FIG. 121 is an illustration of a 13th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 121, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, and 179.

FIG. 122 is an illustration of a 14th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 122, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 144, 148, 152, 156, 160, 164, 168, 172, 176, 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61, 65, 69, 73, 77, 81, 85, 89, 93, 97, 101, 105, 109, 113, 117, 121, 125, 129, 133, 137, 141, 145, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165, 169, 173, 177, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 102, 106, 110, 114, 118, 122, 126, 130, 134, 138, 142, 146, 150, 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 59, 63, 67, 71, 75, 79, 83, 87, 91, 95, 99, 103, 107, 111, 115, 119, 123, 127, 131, 135, 139, 143, 147, 151, 155, 159, 163, 167, 171, 175, and 179.

FIG. 123 is an illustration of a 15th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 123, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

8, 112, 92, 165, 12, 55, 5, 126, 87, 70, 69, 94, 103, 78, 137, 148, 9, 60, 13, 7, 178, 79, 43, 136, 34, 68, 118, 152, 49, 15, 99, 61, 66, 28, 109, 125, 33, 167, 81, 93, 97, 26, 35, 30, 153, 131, 122, 71, 107, 130, 76, 4, 95, 42, 58, 134, 0, 89, 75, 40, 129, 31, 80, 101, 52, 16, 142, 44, 138, 46, 116, 27, 82, 88, 143, 128, 72, 29, 83, 117, 172, 14, 51, 159, 48, 160, 100, 1, 102, 90, 22, 3, 114, 19, 108, 113, 39, 73, 111, 155, 106, 105, 91, 150, 54, 25, 135, 139, 147, 36, 56, 123, 6, 67, 104, 96, 157, 10, 62, 164, 86, 74, 133, 120, 174, 53, 140, 156, 171, 149, 127, 85, 59, 124, 84, 11, 21, 132, 41, 145, 158, 32, 17, 23, 50, 169, 170, 38, 18, 151, 24, 166, 175, 2, 47, 57, 98, 20, 177, 161, 154, 176, 163, 37, 110, 168, 141, 64, 65, 173, 162, 121, 45, 77, 115, 179, 63, 119, 146, and 144.

FIG. 124 is an illustration of a 16th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 124 a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

103, 138, 168, 82, 116, 45, 178, 28, 160, 2, 129, 148, 150, 23, 54, 106, 24, 78, 49, 87, 145, 179, 26, 112, 119, 12, 18, 174, 21, 48, 134, 137, 102, 147, 152, 72, 68, 3, 22, 169, 30, 64, 108, 142, 131, 13, 113, 115, 121, 37, 133, 136, 101, 59, 73, 161, 38, 164, 43, 167, 42, 144, 41, 85, 91, 58, 128, 154, 172, 57, 75, 17, 157, 19, 4, 86, 15, 25, 35, 9, 105, 123, 14, 34, 56, 111, 60, 90, 74, 149, 146, 62, 163, 31, 16, 141, 88, 6, 155, 130, 89, 107, 135, 79, 8, 10, 124, 171, 114, 162, 33, 66, 126, 71, 44, 158, 51, 84, 165, 173, 120, 7, 11, 170, 176, 1, 156, 96, 175, 153, 36, 47, 110, 63, 132, 29, 95, 143, 98, 70, 20, 122, 53, 100, 93, 140, 109, 139, 76, 151, 52, 61, 46, 125, 94, 50, 67, 81, 69, 65, 40, 127, 77, 32, 39, 27, 99, 97, 159, 166, 80, 117, 55, 92, 118, 0, 5, 83, 177, and 104.

FIG. 125 is an illustration of a 17th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 125, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

104, 120, 47, 136, 116, 109, 22, 20, 117, 61, 52, 108, 86, 99, 76, 90, 37, 58, 36, 138, 95, 130, 177, 93, 56, 33, 24, 82, 0, 67, 83, 46, 79, 70, 154, 18, 75, 43, 49, 63, 162, 16, 167, 80, 125, 1, 123, 107, 9, 45, 53, 15, 38, 23, 57, 141, 4, 178, 165, 113, 21, 105, 11, 124, 126, 77, 146, 29, 131, 27, 176, 40, 74, 91, 140, 64, 73, 44, 129, 157, 172, 51, 10, 128, 119, 163, 103, 28, 85, 156, 78, 6, 8, 173, 160, 106, 31, 54, 122, 25, 139, 68, 150, 164, 87, 135, 97, 166, 42, 169, 161, 137, 26, 39, 133, 5, 94, 69, 2, 30, 171, 149, 115, 96, 145, 101, 92, 143, 12, 88, 81, 71, 19, 147, 50, 152, 159, 155, 151, 174, 60, 32, 3, 142, 72, 14, 170, 112, 65, 89, 175, 158, 17, 114, 62, 144, 13, 98, 66, 59, 7, 118, 48, 153, 100, 134, 84, 111, 132, 127, 41, 168, 110, 102, 34, 121, 179, 148, 55, and 35.

FIG. 126 is an illustration of a 18th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 126, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

37, 98, 160, 63, 18, 6, 94, 136, 8, 50, 0, 75, 65, 32, 107, 60, 108, 17, 21, 156, 157, 5, 73, 66, 38, 177, 162, 130, 171, 76, 57, 126, 103, 62, 120, 134, 154, 101, 143, 29, 13, 149, 16, 33, 55, 56, 159, 128, 23, 146, 153, 141, 169, 49, 46, 152, 89, 155, 111, 127, 48, 14, 93, 41, 7, 78, 135, 69, 123, 179, 36, 87, 27, 58, 88, 170, 125, 110, 15, 97, 178, 90, 121, 173, 30, 102, 10, 80, 104, 166, 64, 4, 147, 1, 52, 45, 148, 68, 158, 31, 140, 100, 85, 115, 151, 70, 39, 82, 122, 79, 12, 91, 133, 132, 22, 163, 47, 19, 119, 144, 35, 25, 42, 83, 92, 26, 72, 138, 54, 124, 24, 74, 118, 117, 168, 71, 109, 112, 106, 176, 175, 44, 145, 11, 9, 161, 96, 77, 174, 137, 34, 84, 2, 164, 129, 43, 150, 61, 53, 20, 165, 113, 142, 116, 95, 3, 28, 40, 81, 99, 139, 114, 59, 67, 172, 131, 105, 167, 51, and 86.

FIG. 127 is an illustration of a 19th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 127, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

58, 70, 23, 32, 26, 63, 55, 48, 35, 41, 53, 20, 38, 51, 61, 65, 44, 29, 7, 2, 113, 68, 96, 104, 106, 89, 27, 0, 119, 21, 4, 49, 46, 100, 13, 36, 57, 98, 102, 9, 42, 39, 33, 62, 22, 95, 101, 15, 91, 25, 93, 132, 69, 87, 47, 59, 67, 124, 17, 11, 31, 43, 40, 37, 85, 50, 97, 140, 45, 92, 56, 30, 34, 60, 107, 24, 52, 94, 64, 5, 71, 90, 66, 103, 88, 86, 84, 19, 169, 159, 147, 126, 28, 130, 14, 162, 144, 166, 108, 153, 115, 135, 120, 122, 112, 139, 151, 156, 16, 172, 164, 123, 99, 54, 136, 81, 105, 128, 116, 150, 155, 76, 18, 142, 170, 175, 83, 146, 78, 109, 73, 131, 127, 82, 167, 77, 110, 79, 137, 152, 3, 173, 148, 72, 158, 117, 1, 6, 12, 8, 161, 74, 143, 133, 168, 171, 134, 163, 138, 121, 141, 160, 111, 10, 149, 80, 75, 165, 157, 174, 129, 145, 114, 125, 154, 118, 176, 177, 178, and 179.

FIG. 128 is an illustration of a 20th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 128, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

40, 159, 100, 14, 88, 75, 53, 24, 157, 84, 23, 77, 140, 145, 32, 28, 112, 39, 76, 50, 93, 27, 107, 25, 152, 101, 127, 5, 129, 71, 9, 21, 96, 73, 35, 106, 158, 49, 136, 30, 137, 115, 139, 48, 167, 85, 74, 72, 7, 110, 161, 41, 170, 147, 82, 128, 149, 33, 8, 120, 47, 68, 58, 67, 87, 155, 11, 18, 103, 151, 29, 36, 83, 135, 79, 150, 97, 54, 70, 138, 156, 31, 121, 34, 20, 130, 61, 57, 2, 166, 117, 15, 6, 165, 118, 98, 116, 131, 109, 62, 126, 175, 22, 111, 164, 16, 133, 102, 55, 105, 64, 177, 78, 37, 162, 124, 119, 19, 4, 69, 132, 65, 123, 160, 17, 52, 38, 1, 80, 90, 42, 81, 104, 13, 144, 51, 114, 3, 43, 146, 163, 59, 45, 89, 122, 169, 44, 94, 86, 99, 66, 171, 173, 0, 141, 148, 176, 26, 143, 178, 60, 153, 142, 91, 179, 12, 168, 113, 95, 174, 56, 134, 92, 46, 108, 125, 10, 172, 154, and 63.

FIG. 129 is an illustration of a 21st example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 129, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

143, 57, 67, 26, 134, 112, 136, 103, 13, 94, 16, 116, 169, 95, 98, 6, 174, 173, 102, 15, 114, 39, 127, 78, 18, 123, 121, 4, 89, 115, 24, 108, 74, 63, 175, 82, 48, 20, 104, 92, 27, 3, 33, 106, 62, 148, 154, 25, 129, 69, 178, 156, 87, 83, 100, 122, 70, 93, 50, 140, 43, 125, 166, 41, 128, 85, 157, 49, 86, 66, 79, 130, 133, 171, 21, 165, 126, 51, 153, 38, 142, 109, 10, 65, 23, 91, 90, 73, 61, 42, 47, 131, 77, 9, 58, 96, 101, 37, 7, 159, 44, 2, 170, 160, 162, 0, 137, 31, 45, 110, 144, 88, 8, 11, 40, 81, 168, 135, 56, 151, 107, 105, 32, 120, 132, 1, 84, 161, 179, 72, 176, 71, 145, 139, 75, 141, 97, 17, 149, 124, 80, 60, 36, 52, 164, 53, 158, 113, 34, 76, 5, 111, 155, 138, 19, 35, 167, 172, 14, 147, 55, 152, 59, 64, 54, 117, 146, 118, 119, 150, 29, 163, 68, 99, 46, 177, 28, 22, 30, and 12.

FIG. 130 is an illustration of a 22nd example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 130, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

116, 47, 155, 89, 109, 137, 103, 60, 114, 14, 148, 100, 28, 132, 129, 105, 154, 7, 167, 140, 160, 30, 57, 32, 81, 3, 86, 45, 69, 147, 125, 52, 20, 22, 156, 168, 17, 5, 93, 53, 61, 149, 56, 62, 112, 48, 11, 21, 166, 73, 158, 104, 79, 128, 135, 126, 63, 26, 44, 97, 13, 151, 123, 41, 118, 35, 131, 8, 90, 58, 134, 6, 78, 130, 82, 106, 99, 178, 102, 29, 108, 120, 107, 139, 23, 85, 36, 172, 174, 138, 95, 145, 170, 122, 50, 19, 91, 67, 101, 92, 179, 27, 94, 66, 171, 39, 68, 9, 59, 146, 15, 31, 38, 49, 37, 64, 77, 152, 144, 72, 165, 163, 24, 1, 2, 111, 80, 124, 43, 136, 127, 153, 75, 42, 113, 18, 164, 133, 142, 98, 96, 4, 51, 150, 46, 121, 76, 10, 25, 176, 34, 110, 115, 143, 173, 169, 40, 65, 157, 175, 70, 33, 141, 71, 119, 16, 162, 177, 12, 84, 87, 117, 0, 88, 161, 55, 54, 83, 74, and 159.

FIG. 131 is an illustration of a 23rd example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 131, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

62, 17, 10, 25, 174, 13, 159, 14, 108, 0, 42, 57, 78, 67, 41, 132, 110, 87, 77, 27, 88, 56, 8, 161, 7, 164, 171, 44, 75, 176, 145, 165, 157, 34, 142, 98, 103, 52, 11, 82, 141, 116, 15, 158, 139, 120, 36, 61, 20, 112, 144, 53, 128, 24, 96, 122, 114, 104, 150, 50, 51, 80, 109, 33, 5, 95, 59, 16, 134, 105, 111, 21, 40, 146, 18, 133, 60, 23, 160, 106, 32, 79, 55, 6, 1, 154, 117, 19, 152, 167, 166, 30, 35, 100, 74, 131, 99, 156, 39, 76, 86, 43, 178, 155, 179, 177, 136, 175, 81, 64, 124, 153, 84, 163, 135, 115, 125, 47, 45, 143, 72, 48, 172, 97, 85, 107, 126, 91, 129, 137, 83, 118, 54, 2, 9, 58, 169, 73, 123, 4, 92, 168, 162, 94, 138, 119, 22, 31, 63, 89, 90, 69, 49, 173, 28, 127, 26, 29, 101, 170, 93, 140, 147, 149, 148, 66, 65, 121, 12, 71, 37, 70, 102, 46, 38, 68, 130, 3, 113, and 151.

FIG. 132 is an illustration of a 24th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 132, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

168, 18, 46, 131, 88, 90, 11, 89, 111, 174, 172, 38, 78, 153, 9, 80, 53, 27, 44, 79, 35, 83, 171, 51, 37, 99, 95, 119, 117, 127, 112, 166, 28, 123, 33, 160, 29, 6, 135, 10, 66, 69, 74, 92, 15, 109, 106, 178, 65, 141, 0, 3, 154, 156, 164, 7, 45, 115, 122, 148, 110, 24, 121, 126, 23, 175, 21, 113, 58, 43, 26, 143, 56, 142, 39, 147, 30, 25, 101, 145, 136, 19, 4, 48, 158, 118, 133, 49, 20, 102, 14, 151, 5, 2, 72, 103, 75, 60, 84, 34, 157, 169, 31, 161, 81, 70, 85, 159, 132, 41, 152, 179, 98, 144, 36, 16, 87, 40, 91, 1, 130, 108, 139, 94, 97, 8, 104, 13, 150, 137, 47, 73, 62, 12, 50, 61, 105, 100, 86, 146, 165, 22, 17, 57, 167, 59, 96, 120, 155, 77, 162, 55, 68, 140, 134, 82, 76, 125, 32, 176, 138, 173, 177, 163, 107, 170, 71, 129, 63, 93, 42, 52, 116, 149, 54, 128, 124, 114, 67, and 64.

FIG. 133 is an illustration of a 25th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 133, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

18, 150, 165, 42, 81, 48, 63, 45, 93, 152, 25, 16, 174, 29, 47, 83, 8, 60, 30, 66, 11, 113, 44, 148, 4, 155, 59, 33, 134, 99, 32, 176, 109, 72, 36, 111, 106, 73, 170, 126, 64, 88, 20, 17, 172, 154, 120, 121, 139, 77, 98, 43, 105, 133, 19, 41, 78, 15, 7, 145, 94, 136, 131, 163, 65, 31, 96, 79, 119, 143, 10, 95, 9, 146, 14, 118, 162, 37, 97, 49, 22, 51, 127, 6, 71, 132, 87, 21, 39, 38, 54, 115, 159, 161, 84, 108, 13, 102, 135, 103, 156, 67, 173, 76, 75, 164, 52, 142, 69, 130, 56, 153, 74, 166, 158, 124, 141, 58, 116, 85, 175, 169, 168, 147, 35, 62, 5, 123, 100, 90, 122, 101, 149, 112, 140, 86, 68, 89, 125, 27, 177, 160, 0, 80, 55, 151, 53, 2, 70, 167, 114, 129, 179, 138, 1, 92, 26, 50, 28, 110, 61, 82, 91, 117, 107, 178, 34, 157, 137, 128, 40, 24, 57, 3, 171, 46, 104, 12, 144, and 23.

FIG. 134 is an illustration of a 26th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 134, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

18, 8, 166, 117, 4, 111, 142, 148, 176, 91, 120, 144, 99, 124, 20, 25, 31, 78, 36, 72, 2, 98, 93, 74, 174, 52, 152, 62, 88, 75, 23, 97, 147, 15, 71, 1, 127, 138, 81, 83, 68, 94, 112, 119, 121, 89, 163, 85, 86, 28, 17, 64, 14, 44, 158, 159, 150, 32, 128, 70, 90, 29, 30, 63, 100, 65, 129, 140, 177, 46, 84, 92, 10, 33, 58, 7, 96, 151, 171, 40, 76, 6, 3, 37, 104, 57, 135, 103, 141, 107, 116, 160, 41, 153, 175, 55, 130, 118, 131, 42, 27, 133, 95, 179, 34, 21, 87, 106, 105, 108, 79, 134, 113, 26, 164, 114, 73, 102, 77, 22, 110, 161, 43, 122, 123, 82, 5, 48, 139, 60, 49, 154, 115, 146, 67, 69, 137, 109, 143, 24, 101, 45, 16, 12, 19, 178, 80, 51, 47, 149, 50, 172, 170, 169, 61, 9, 39, 136, 59, 38, 54, 156, 126, 125, 145, 0, 13, 155, 132, 162, 11, 157, 66, 165, 173, 56, 168, 167, 53, and 35.

FIG. 135 is an illustration of a 27th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 135, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

77, 50, 109, 128, 153, 12, 48, 17, 147, 55, 173, 172, 135, 121, 99, 162, 52, 40, 129, 168, 103, 87, 134, 105, 179, 10, 131, 151, 3, 26, 100, 15, 123, 88, 18, 91, 54, 160, 49, 1, 76, 80, 74, 31, 47, 58, 161, 9, 16, 34, 41, 21, 177, 11, 63, 6, 39, 165, 169, 125, 114, 57, 37, 67, 93, 96, 73, 106, 83, 166, 24, 51, 142, 65, 43, 64, 53, 72, 156, 81, 4, 155, 33, 163, 56, 150, 70, 167, 107, 112, 144, 149, 36, 32, 35, 59, 101, 29, 127, 138, 176, 90, 141, 92, 170, 102, 119, 25, 75, 14, 0, 68, 20, 97, 110, 28, 89, 118, 154, 126, 2, 22, 124, 85, 175, 78, 46, 152, 23, 86, 27, 79, 130, 66, 45, 113, 111, 62, 61, 7, 30, 133, 108, 171, 143, 60, 178, 5, 122, 44, 38, 148, 157, 84, 42, 139, 145, 8, 104, 115, 71, 137, 132, 146, 164, 98, 13, 117, 174, 158, 95, 116, 140, 94, 136, 120, 82, 69, 159, and 19.

FIG. 136 is an illustration of a 28th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 136, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

51, 47, 53, 43, 55, 59, 49, 33, 35, 31, 24, 37, 0, 2, 45, 41, 39, 57, 42, 44, 52, 40, 23, 30, 32, 34, 54, 56, 46, 50, 122, 48, 1, 36, 38, 58, 77, 3, 65, 81, 67, 147, 83, 69, 26, 75, 85, 73, 79, 145, 71, 63, 5, 61, 70, 78, 68, 62, 66, 6, 64, 149, 60, 82, 80, 4, 76, 84, 72, 154, 86, 74, 89, 128, 137, 91, 141, 93, 101, 7, 87, 9, 103, 99, 95, 11, 13, 143, 97, 133, 136, 12, 100, 94, 14, 88, 142, 96, 92, 8, 152, 10, 139, 102, 104, 132, 90, 98, 114, 112, 146, 123, 110, 15, 125, 150, 120, 153, 29, 106, 134, 27, 127, 108, 130, 116, 28, 107, 126, 25, 131, 124, 129, 151, 121, 105, 111, 115, 135, 148, 109, 117, 158, 113, 170, 119, 162, 178, 155, 176, 18, 20, 164, 157, 160, 22, 140, 16, 168, 166, 172, 174, 175, 179, 118, 138, 156, 19, 169, 167, 163, 173, 161, 177, 165, 144, 171, 17, 21, and 159.

FIG. 137 is an illustration of a 29th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 137, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

49, 2, 57, 47, 31, 35, 24, 39, 59, 0, 45, 41, 55, 53, 51, 37, 33, 43, 56, 38, 48, 32, 50, 23, 34, 54, 1, 36, 44, 52, 40, 58, 122, 46, 42, 30, 3, 75, 73, 65, 145, 71, 79, 67, 69, 83, 85, 147, 63, 81, 77, 61, 5, 26, 62, 64, 74, 70, 82, 149, 76, 4, 78, 84, 80, 86, 66, 68, 72, 6, 60, 154, 103, 95, 101, 143, 9, 89, 141, 128, 97, 137, 133, 7, 13, 99, 91, 93, 87, 11, 136, 90, 88, 94, 10, 8, 14, 96, 104, 92, 132, 142, 100, 98, 12, 102, 152, 139, 150, 106, 146, 130, 27, 108, 153, 112, 114, 29, 110, 134, 116, 15, 127, 125, 123, 120, 148, 151, 113, 126, 124, 135, 129, 109, 25, 28, 158, 117, 105, 115, 111, 131, 107, 121, 18, 170, 164, 20, 140, 160, 166, 162, 119, 155, 168, 178, 22, 174, 172, 176, 16, 157, 159, 171, 161, 118, 17, 163, 21, 165, 19, 179, 177, 167, 138, 173, 156, 144, 169, and 175.

FIG. 138 is an illustration of a 30th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 138, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121, 151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110, 128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150, 103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89, 4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124, 7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112, 99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44, 106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88, 54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24, 49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176, 74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130, 160, 2, 126, 51, and 137.

FIG. 139 is an illustration of a 31th example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 139, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups 66, 61, 150, 157, 63, 42, 78, 44, 23, 154, 133, 101, 82, 26, 84, 123, 89, 31, 45, 102, 36, 134, 83, 117, 170, 27, 73, 137, 25, 32, 62, 91, 4, 20, 144, 145, 21, 74, 113, 148, 24, 135, 5, 19, 2, 34, 43, 168, 14, 64, 142, 115, 87, 38, 147, 39, 51, 152, 56, 86, 122, 76, 57, 129, 172, 6, 126, 10, 97, 85, 164, 3, 80, 90, 79, 124, 138, 120, 17, 103, 99, 116, 46, 98, 162, 151, 143, 11, 175, 160, 96, 132, 81, 171, 94, 65, 118, 161, 125, 178, 95, 112, 88, 174, 13, 35, 1, 167, 0, 128, 12, 58, 29, 169, 67, 28, 119, 166, 60, 55, 54, 130, 92, 146, 177, 149, 111, 9, 173, 179, 176, 75, 77, 114, 48, 159, 8, 141, 107, 139, 52, 100, 136, 105, 127, 47, 18, 69, 109, 16, 121, 59, 163, 165, 108, 106, 70, 22, 93, 41, 33, 110, 53, 140, 153, 158, 50, 15, 37, 72, 156, 7, 131, 49, 71, 68, 104, 30, 40, 155.

FIG. 140 is an illustration of a 32nd example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 140, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

75, 83, 11, 24, 86, 104, 156, 76, 37, 173, 127, 61, 43, 139, 106, 69, 49, 2, 128, 140, 68, 14, 100, 8, 36, 73, 148, 65, 16, 47, 177, 6, 132, 45, 5, 30, 13, 22, 29, 27, 101, 150, 23, 90, 41, 93, 89, 92, 135, 4, 71, 87, 44, 124, 26, 64, 1, 129, 157, 130, 107, 18, 91, 118, 3, 82, 144, 113, 121, 54, 84, 97, 122, 120, 7, 154, 56, 134, 57, 161, 33, 116, 28, 96, 72, 172, 12, 115, 38, 164, 32, 167, 145, 17, 88, 39, 151, 80, 0, 136, 169, 142, 74, 147, 126, 166, 163, 40, 110, 171, 50, 160, 131, 70, 175, 103, 125, 77, 162, 31, 85, 66, 67, 52, 108, 159, 133, 42, 153, 21, 51, 119, 123, 98, 35, 48, 111, 149, 25, 58, 60, 158, 102, 59, 117, 20, 141, 143, 46, 53, 155, 15, 165, 152, 112, 176, 105, 178, 99, 174, 168, 114, 179, 78, 10, 19, 62, 63, 170, 138, 34, 109, 9, 146, 95, 94, 55, 137, 81, and 79.

FIG. 141 is an illustration of a 33rd example of the GW pattern for an LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 141, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

98, 159, 59, 125, 163, 89, 26, 4, 102, 70, 92, 36, 37, 142, 176, 95, 71, 19, 87, 45, 81, 47, 65, 170, 103, 48, 67, 61, 64, 35, 76, 80, 140, 77, 10, 167, 178, 155, 120, 156, 151, 12, 58, 5, 83, 137, 41, 109, 2, 66, 133, 62, 135, 28, 93, 128, 86, 57, 153, 161, 110, 52, 147, 141, 31, 79, 32, 88, 160, 84, 150, 6, 100, 73, 126, 164, 17, 42, 101, 7, 55, 105, 91, 22, 130, 154, 1, 82, 14, 0, 9, 21, 50, 165, 72, 138, 175, 106, 108, 3, 169, 30, 157, 54, 18, 20, 44, 34, 134, 107, 56, 53, 15, 162, 38, 166, 24, 33, 60, 85, 145, 115, 43, 39, 40, 124, 149, 144, 132, 96, 11, 146, 90, 129, 119, 111, 171, 8, 152, 121, 173, 131, 49, 27, 118, 16, 148, 68, 177, 94, 179, 13, 114, 75, 51, 117, 25, 46, 136, 143, 139, 113, 127, 174, 74, 29, 122, 158, 69, 97, 78, 63, 99, 112, 104, 116, 172, 168, 23, and 123.

The 1st to 33rd examples of the GW pattern for the LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits can be applied to any combination of the LDPC code in which the code length N is 64 kbits with an arbitrary encoding rate r and modulation scheme (constellation).

However, when the GW pattern to be applied to the group-wise interleave is set for each combination of the code length N of the LDPC code, the encoding rate r of the LDPC code, and the modulation scheme (constellation), the error rate of each combination can be further improved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 109 is applied to, for example, the combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 110 is applied to, for example, the combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 111 is applied to, for example, the combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 112 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 113 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 114 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 115 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 116 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 117 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 118 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 119 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 120 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 121 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 122 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 123 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 124 is applied to, for example, the combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 125 is applied to, for example, the combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 126 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 127 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 128 is applied to, for example, the combination of the NERC symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 129 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 130 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 131 is applied to, for example, the combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 132 is applied to, for example, the combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 133 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 134 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 135 is applied to, for example, the combination of the NERC symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 136 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 137 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 138 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Samsung symbol (64 k, 6/15) and 4096QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 139 is applied to, for example, the combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 4096QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 140 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Samsung symbol (64 k, 8/15) and 4096QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 141 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 4096QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

<Example of GW Pattern for LDPC Code of 16 k Bits>

FIG. 142 is an illustration of a 1st example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 142, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

21, 41, 15, 29, 0, 23, 16, 12, 38, 43, 2, 3, 4, 20, 31, 27, 5, 33, 28, 30, 36, 8, 40, 13, 6, 9, 18, 24, 7, 39, 10, 17, 37, 1, 19, 22, 25, 26, 14, 32, 34, 11, 35, 42, and 44.

FIG. 143 is an illustration of a 2nd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 143, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

1, 3, 2, 8, 5, 23, 13, 12, 18, 19, 17, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 0, 4, 6, 7, 21, 16, 10, 15,9, 11,22, 14, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 144 is an illustration of a 3rd example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 144, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

1, 4, 5, 6, 24, 21, 18, 7, 17, 12, 8, 20, 23, 29, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 0, 2,3, 14,22, 13, 10, 25, 9, 27, 19, 16, 15,26, 11, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 145 is an illustration of a 4th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 145, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

3, 0, 4, 7, 18, 9, 19, 27, 32, 10, 12, 24, 8, 35, 30, 17, 22, 20, 36, 38, 40, 42, 2, 5, 1, 6, 14, 15, 23, 16, 11, 21, 26, 13, 29, 33, 31, 28, 25, 34, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 44.

FIG. 146 is an illustration of a 5th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 146, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

37, 0, 41, 19, 43, 8, 38, 3, 29, 13, 22, 6, 4, 2, 9, 26, 39, 15, 12, 10, 33, 17, 20, 16, 21, 44, 42, 27, 7, 11, 30, 34, 24, 1, 23, 35, 36, 25, 31, 18, 28, 32, 40, 5, and 14.

FIG. 147 is an illustration of a 6th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 147, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

6, 28, 17, 4, 3, 38, 13, 41, 44, 43, 7, 40, 19, 2, 23, 16, 37, 15, 30, 20, 11, 8, 1, 27, 32, 34, 33, 39, 5, 9, 10, 18, 0, 31, 29, 26, 14, 21, 42, 22, 12, 24, 35, 25, and 36.

FIG. 148 is an illustration of a 7th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 148, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

27, 11, 20, 1, 7, 5, 29, 35, 9, 10, 34, 18, 25, 28, 6, 13, 17, 0, 23, 16, 41, 15, 19, 44, 24, 37, 4, 31, 8, 32, 14, 42, 12, 2, 40, 30, 36, 39, 43, 21, 3, 22, 26, 33, and 38.

FIG. 149 is an illustration of an 8th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 149, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

3, 6, 7, 27, 2, 23, 10, 30, 22, 28, 24, 20, 37, 21, 4, 14, 11, 42, 16, 9, 15, 26, 33, 40, 5, 8, 44, 34, 18, 0, 32, 29, 19, 41, 38, 17, 25, 43, 35, 36, 13, 39, 12, 1, and 31.

FIG. 150 is an illustration of a 9th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 150, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

31, 38, 7, 9, 13, 21, 39, 12, 10, 1, 43, 15, 30, 0, 14, 3, 42, 34, 40, 24, 28, 35, 8, 11, 23, 4, 20, 17, 41, 19, 5, 37, 22, 32, 18, 2, 26, 44, 25, 33, 36, 27, 16, 6, and 29.

FIG. 151 is an illustration of a 10th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 151, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

36, 6, 2, 20, 43, 17, 33, 22, 23, 25, 13,0, 10, 7, 21, 1, 19, 26, 8, 14, 31, 35, 16, 5, 29, 40, 11, 9, 4, 34, 15, 42, 32, 28, 18, 37, 30, 39, 24, 41, 3, 38, 27, 12, and 44.

FIG. 152 is an illustration of a 11th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 152, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

14, 22, 18, 11, 28, 26, 2, 38, 10, 0, 5, 12, 24, 17, 29, 16, 39, 13, 23, 8, 25, 43, 34, 33, 27, 15,7, 1, 9, 35, 40, 32, 30, 20, 36, 31, 21, 41, 44, 3, 42, 6, 19, 37, and 4.

FIG. 153 is an illustration of a 12th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 153, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

17, 11, 14, 7, 31, 10, 2, 26, 0, 32, 29, 22, 33, 12, 20, 28, 27, 39, 37, 15, 4, 5, 8, 13, 38, 18, 23, 34, 24, 6, 1, 9, 16, 44, 21, 3, 36, 30, 40, 35, 43, 42, 25, 19, and 41.

FIG. 154 is an illustration of a 13th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 154, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

1, 27, 17, 30, 11, 15, 9, 7, 5, 6, 32, 33, 2, 14, 3, 39, 18, 12, 29, 13, 41, 31, 4, 43, 35, 34, 40, 10, 19, 44, 8, 26, 21, 16, 28, 0, 23, 38, 25, 36, 22, 37, 42, 24, and 20.

FIG. 155 is an illustration of a 14th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 155, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

41, 2, 12, 6, 33, 1, 13, 11, 26, 10, 39, 43, 36, 23, 42, 7, 44, 20, 8, 38, 18, 22, 24, 40, 4, 28, 29, 19, 14, 5, 9, 0, 30, 25, 35, 37, 27, 32, 31, 34, 21, 3, 15, 17, and 16,

FIG. 156 is an illustration of a 15th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 156, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

17, 2, 30, 12, 7, 25, 27, 3, 15, 14, 4, 26, 34, 31, 13, 22, 0, 39, 23, 24, 21, 6, 38, 5, 19, 42, 11, 32, 28, 40, 20, 18, 36, 9, 41, 10, 33, 37, 1, 16, 8, 43, 29, 35, and 44.

FIG. 157 is an illustration of a 16th example of a GW pattern for an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16 k bits.

According to the GW pattern of FIG. 157, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 44 of the LDPC code of 16 kbits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups

28, 21, 10, 15, 8, 22, 26, 2, 14, 1, 27, 3, 39, 20, 34, 25, 12, 6, 7, 40, 30, 29, 38, 16, 43, 33, 4, 35, 9, 32, 5, 36, 0, 41, 37, 18, 17, 13, 24, 42, 31, 23, 19, 11, and 44.

The 1st to 16th examples of the GW pattern for the LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits can be applied to any combination of the LDPC code in which the code length N is 16 kbits with an arbitrary encoding rate r and modulation scheme (constellation).

However, when the GW pattern to be applied to the group-wise interleave is set for each combination of the code length N of the LDPC code, the encoding rate r of the LDPC code, and the modulation scheme (constellation), the error rate of each combination can be further improved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 142 is applied to, for example, the combination of the LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 143 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 144 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 145 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 146 is applied to, for example, the combination of the LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 101, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 147 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 101, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 148 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 101, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 149 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 101, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 150 is applied to, for example, the combination of the LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 102, a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 151 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 102 a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 152 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 102 a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 153 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 102 a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 154 is applied to, for example, the combination of the LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104 a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 155 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104 a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 156 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104 a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

When the GW pattern of FIG. 157 is applied to, for example, the combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104 a particularly excellent error rate can be achieved.

<Simulation Result>

FIG. 158 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 109 is applied to a combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 159 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 110 is applied to a combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 160 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 111 is applied to a combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 161 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 112 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 162 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 113 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 163 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 114 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 164 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 115 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 165 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 116 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 166 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 117 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 167 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 118 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 168 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 119 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 169 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 120 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 170 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 121 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 171 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 122 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 90.

FIG. 172 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 123 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 91.

FIG. 173 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 124 is applied to a combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 174 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 125 is applied to a combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 175 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 126 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 176 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 127 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 177 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 128 is applied to a combination of the NERC symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 178 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 129 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 179 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 130 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 92 and 93.

FIG. 180 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 131 is applied to a combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 5/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 181 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 132 is applied to a combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 182 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 133 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 183 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 134 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 184 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 135 is applied to a combination of the NERC symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 185 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 136 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 11/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 186 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 137 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 13/15) and 1024QAM of FIGS. 94 and 95.

FIG. 187 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 138 is applied to a combination of the Samsung symbol (64 k, 6/15) and 4096QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97.

FIG. 188 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 139 is applied to a combination of the ETRI symbol (64 k, 7/15) and 4096QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97.

FIG. 189 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 140 is applied to a combination of the Samsung symbol (64 k, 8/15) and 4096QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97.

FIG. 190 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 141 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (64 k, 9/15) and 4096QAM of FIGS. 96 and 97.

FIG. 191 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 142 is applied to a combination of the LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 192 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 143 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 193 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 144 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 194 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 145 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) and QPSK of FIG. 89.

FIG. 195 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 146 is applied to a combination of the LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 101.

FIG. 196 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 147 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 101.

FIG. 197 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 148 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 101.

FIG. 198 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 149 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) and 16QAM of FIG. 101.

FIG. 199 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 150 is applied to a combination of the LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 102.

FIG. 200 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 151 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 102.

FIG. 201 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 152 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 102.

FIG. 202 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 153 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) and 64QAM of FIG. 102.

FIG. 203 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 154 is applied to a combination of the LGE symbol (16 k, 6/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104.

FIG. 204 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 155 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 8/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104.

FIG. 205 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 156 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 10/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104.

FIG. 206 is an illustration of a BER/FER curve indicating a simulation result of a simulation of measuring the error rate when the GW pattern of FIG. 157 is applied to a combination of the Sony symbol (16 k, 12/15) and 256QAM of FIGS. 103 and 104.

FIGS. 158 to 206 illustrate BER/FER curves when an AWGN channel is employed as the communication path 13 (FIG. 7) (the upper drawings) and BER/FER curves when a Rayleigh (fading) channel is employed as the communication path 13 (FIG. 7) (the lower drawings).

In FIGS. 158 to 206, “w bil” indicates a BER/FER curve when the parity interleave, the group-wise interleave, and the block-wise interleave are performed, and “w/o bil” indicates a BER/FER curve when the parity interleave, the group-wise interleave, and the block-wise interleave are not performed.

As can be seen from FIGS. 158 to 206, when the parity interleave, the group-wise interleave, and the block-wise interleave are performed, it is possible to improve the BER/FER and achieve the excellent the error rate compared to when they are not performed.

Further, it is possible to apply the GW patterns of FIGS. 109 to 157 to the constellation in which the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 83 to 104 have been moved symmetrically to the I axis or the Q axis, the constellation in which the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 83 to 104 have been moved symmetrically to the origin, the constellation in which the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 83 to 104 have been rotated at an arbitrary angle centering on the origin, and the like in addition to the constellation of QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM, and 4096QAM of the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 83 to 104, and it is possible to obtain the same effects as when the GW patterns of FIGS. 109 to 157 are applied to the constellation of QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM, and 4096QAM of the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 83 to 104.

Further, it is possible to apply the GW pattern of FIGS. 109 to 157 to the constellation in which the most significant bit (MSB) and the least significant bit (LSB) of the symbol to be associated with (allocated to) the signal point are interchanged in the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 83 to 104 in addition to the constellation of QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM, and 4096QAM of the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 83 to 104, and it is possible to obtain the same effects as when the GW patterns of FIGS. 109 to 157 are applied to the constellation of QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM, and 4096QAM of the signal point arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 83 to 104 as well.

<Configuration Example of Receiving Device 12>

FIG. 207 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the receiving device 12 of FIG. 7.

An OFDM operating unit 151 receives an OFDM signal from the transmitting device 11 (FIG. 7) and executes signal processing of the OFDM signal. Data that is obtained by executing the signal processing by the OFDM operating unit 151 is supplied to a frame managing unit 152.

The frame managing unit 152 executes processing (frame interpretation) of a frame configured by the data supplied from the OFDM operating unit 151 and supplies a signal of target data obtained as a result and a signal of signaling to frequency deinterleavers 161 and 153.

The frequency deinterleaver 153 performs frequency deinterleave in a unit of symbol, with respect to the data supplied from the frame managing unit 152, and supplies the symbol to a demapper 154.

The demapper 154 performs demapping (signal point arrangement decoding) and orthogonal demodulation on the data (the data on the constellation) supplied from the frequency deinterleaver 153 based on the arrangement (constellation) of the signal points decided according to the orthogonal modulation performed at the transmitting device 11 side, and supplies the data ((the likelihood of) the LDPC code) obtained as a result to the LDPC decoder 155.

The LDPC decoder 155 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code supplied from the demapper 154 and supplies LDPC target data (in this case, a BCH code) obtained as a result to a BCH decoder 156.

The BCH decoder 156 performs BCH decoding of the LDPC target data supplied from the LDPC decoder 155 and outputs control data (signaling) obtained as a result.

Meanwhile, the frequency deinterleaver 161 performs frequency deinterleave in a unit of symbol, with respect to the data supplied from the frame managing unit 152, and supplies the symbol to a SISO/MISO decoder 162.

The SISO/MISO decoder 162 performs spatiotemporal decoding of the data supplied from the frequency deinterleaver 161 and supplies the data to a time deinterleaver 163.

The time deinterleaver 163 performs time deinterleave in a unit of symbol, with respect to the data supplied from the SISO/MISO decoder 162, and supplies the data to a demapper 164.

The demapper 164 performs demapping (signal point arrangement decoding) and orthogonal demodulation on the data (the data on the constellation) supplied from the time deinterleaver 163 based on the arrangement (constellation) of the signal points decided according to the orthogonal modulation performed at the transmitting device 11 side, and supplies the data obtained as a result to a bit deinterleaver 165.

The bit deinterleaver 165 perform the bit deinterleave on the data supplied from the demapper 164, and supplies (the likelihood of) the LDPC code serving as the data that has undergone the bit deinterleave to an LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code supplied from the bit deinterleaver 165 and supplies LDPC target data (in this case, a BCH code) obtained as a result to a BCH decoder 167.

The BCH decoder 167 performs BCH decoding of the LDPC target data supplied from the LDPC decoder 155 and supplies data obtained as a result to a BB descrambler 168.

The BB descrambler 168 executes BB descramble with respect to the data supplied from the BCH decoder 167 and supplies data obtained as a result to a null deletion unit 169.

The null deletion unit 169 deletes null inserted by the padder 112 of FIG. 8, from the data supplied from the BB descrambler 168, and supplies the data to a demultiplexer 170.

The demultiplexer 170 individually separates one or more streams (target data) multiplexed with the data supplied from the null deletion unit 169, performs necessary processing to output the streams as output streams.

Here, the receiving device 12 can be configured without including part of the blocks illustrated in FIG. 207. That is, for example, in a case where the transmitting device 11 (FIG. 8) is configured without including the time interleaver 118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119, the frequency interleaver 120 and the frequency interleaver 124, the receiving device 12 can be configured without including the time deinterleaver 163, the SISO/MISO decoder 162, the frequency deinterleaver 161 and the frequency deinterleaver 153 which are blocks respectively corresponding to the time interleaver 118, the SISO/MISO encoder 119, the frequency interleaver 120 and the frequency interleaver 124 of the transmitting device 11.

<Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165>

FIG. 208 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 207.

The bit deinterleaver 165 is configured with a block deinterleaver 54 and a group-wise deinterleaver 55, and performs the (bit) deinterleave of the symbol bits of the symbol serving as the data supplied from the demapper 164 (FIG. 207).

In other words, the block deinterleaver 54 performs the block deinterleave (the inverse process of the block interleave) corresponding to the block interleave performed by the block interleaver 25 of FIG. 9, that is, the block deinterleave of restoring the positions of (the likelihood of) of the code bits of the LDPC code rearranged by the block interleave to the original positions on the symbol bits of the symbol supplied from the demapper 164, and supplies the LDPC code obtained as a result to the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs the group-wise deinterleave (the inverse process of the group-wise interleave) corresponding to the group-wise interleave performed by the group-wise interleaver 24 of FIG. 9, that is, the group-wise deinterleave of restoring the original sequence by rearranging the code bits of the LDPC code whose sequence has been changed in units of bit groups by the group-wise interleave described above, for example, with reference to FIG. 108 in units of bit groups on the LDPC code supplied from the block deinterleaver 54

Here, when the LDPC code supplied from the demapper 164 to the bit deinterleaver 165 has undergone the parity interleave, the group-wise interleave, and the block interleave, the bit deinterleaver 165 can perform all of the parity deinterleave (the inverse process of the parity interleave, that is, the parity deinterleave of restoring the code bits of the LDPC code whose sequence has been changed by the parity interleave to the original sequence) corresponding to the parity interleave, the block deinterleave corresponding to the block interleave, and the group-wise deinterleave corresponding to the group-wise interleave.

However, the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 208 is provided with the block deinterleaver 54 that performs the block deinterleave corresponding to the block interleave and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 that performs the group-wise deinterleave corresponding to the group-wise interleave, but no block that performs the parity deinterleave corresponding to the parity interleave is provided, and thus the parity deinterleave is not performed.

Thus, the LDPC code that has undergone the block deinterleave and group-wise deinterleave but has not undergone the parity deinterleave is supplied from (the group-wise deinterleaver 55 of) the bit deinterleaver 165 to the LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code supplied from the bit deinterleaver 165 using the transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing at least the column permutation corresponding to the parity interleave on the parity check matrix H of the DVB scheme used for the LDPC encoding by the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8 (or the transformed parity check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performing the row permutation on the parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme (FIG. 27)), and outputs data obtained as a result as a decoding result of LDPC target data.

FIG. 209 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed by the demapper 164, the bit deinterleaver 165, and the LDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 208.

In step S111, the demapper 164 performs demapping and orthogonal demodulation on the data (the data on the constellation mapped to the signal points) supplied from the time deinterleaver 163, and supplies the resulting data to the bit deinterleaver 165, and the process proceeds to step S112.

In step S112, the bit deinterleaver 165 performs the deinterleave (the bit deinterleave) on the data supplied from the demapper 164, and the process proceeds to step S113.

In other words, in step S112, in the bit deinterleaver 165, the block deinterleaver 54 performs the block deinterleave on the data (symbol) supplied from the demapper 164, and supplies the code bits of the LDPC code obtained as a result to the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs the group-wise deinterleave on the LDPC code supplied from the block deinterleaver 54, and supplies (the likelihood of) the LDPC code obtained as a result to the LDPC decoder 166.

In step S113, the LDPC decoder 166 performs LDPC decoding of the LDPC code supplied from the group-wise deinterleaver 55 using the parity check matrix H used for the LDPC encoding by the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8, that is, using the transformed parity check matrix obtained from the parity check matrix H, for example, and outputs the data obtained as a result to the BCH decoder 167 as a decoding result of the LDPC target data.

In FIG. 208, similarly to the example of FIG. 9, for the sake of convenience of description, the block deinterleaver 54 that performs the block deinterleave and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 that performs the group-wise deinterleave are configured individually, but the block deinterleaver 54 and the group-wise deinterleaver 55 may be configured integrally.

<LDPC Decoding>

The LDPC decoding performed by the LDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 207 will be described.

As described above, the LDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 207 performs the LDPC decoding of the LDPC code that is supplied from the bit deinterleaver 165 and has undergone the block deinterleave and the group-wise deinterleave but has not undergone the parity deinterleave using the transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing at least the column permutation corresponding to the parity interleave on the parity check matrix H of the DVB scheme used for the LDPC encoding by the LDPC encoder 115 of FIG. 8 (or the transformed parity check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performing the row permutation on the parity check matrix of the ETRI scheme (FIG. 27)).

In this case, LDPC decoding that can suppress an operation frequency at a sufficiently realizable range while suppressing a circuit scale, by performing the LDPC decoding using the transformed parity check matrix, is previously suggested (for example, refer to JP 4224777B).

Therefore, first, the previously suggested LDPC decoding using the transformed parity check matrix will be described with reference to FIGS. 210 to 213.

FIG. 210 illustrates an example of a parity check matrix H of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 90 and an encoding rate is 2/3.

In FIG. 210 (and FIGS. 211 and 212 to be described later), 0 is represented by a period (.).

In the parity check matrix H of FIG. 210, the parity matrix becomes a staircase structure.

FIG. 211 illustrates a parity check matrix H′ that is obtained by executing row replacement of an expression (11) and column replacement of an expression (12) with respect to the parity check matrix H of FIG. 210.

Row Replacement: (6s+t+1)-th row→(5t+s+1)-th row  (11)

Column Replacement: (6 x+y+61)-th column→(5y+x+61)-th column   (12)

In the expressions (11) and (12), s, t, x, and y are integers in ranges of 0≤s<5, 0≤t<6, 0≤x<5, and 0≤t<6, respectively.

According to the row replacement of the expression (11), replacement is performed such that the 1st, 7th, 13rd, 19th, and 25th rows having remainders of 1 when being divided by 6 are replaced with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th rows, and the 2nd, 8th, 14th, 20th, and 26th rows having remainders of 2 when being divided by 6 are replaced with the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th rows, respectively.

According to the column replacement of the expression (12), replacement is performed such that the 61st, 67th, 73rd, 79th, and 85th columns having remainders of 1 when being divided by 6 are replaced with the 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, and 65th columns, respectively, and the 62nd, 68th, 74th, 80th, and 86th columns having remainders of 2 when being divided by 6 are replaced with the 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th, and 70th columns, respectively, with respect to the 61st and following columns (parity matrix).

In this way, a matrix that is obtained by performing the replacements of the rows and the columns with respect to the parity check matrix H of FIG. 210 is a parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 211.

In this case, even when the row replacement of the parity check matrix H is performed, the sequence of the code bits of the LDPC code is not influenced.

The column replacement of the expression (12) corresponds to parity interleave to interleave the (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit into the position of the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bit, when the information length K is 60, the unit size P is 5, and the divisor q (=M/P) of the parity length M (in this case, 30) is 6.

Therefore, the parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 211 is a transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing at least column replacement that replaces the K+qx+y+1-th column of the parity check matrix H in FIG. 210 (which may be arbitrarily called an original parity check matrix below) with the K+Py+x+1-th column.

If the parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 211 is multiplied with a result obtained by performing the same replacement as the expression (12) with respect to the LDPC code of the parity check matrix H of FIG. 210, a zero vector is output. That is, if a row vector obtained by performing the column replacement of the expression (12) with respect to a row vector c as the LDPC code (one code word) of the original parity check matrix H is represented as c′, HcT becomes the zero vector from the property of the parity check matrix. Therefore, H′c′T naturally becomes the zero vector.

Thereby, the transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 211 becomes a parity check matrix of an LDPC code c′ that is obtained by performing the column replacement of the expression (12) with respect to the LDPC code c of the original parity check matrix H.

Therefore, the column replacement of the expression (12) is performed with respect to the LDPC code of the original parity check matrix H, the LDPC code c′ after the column replacement is decoded (LDPC decoding) using the transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 211, reverse replacement of the column replacement of the expression (12) is performed with respect to a decoding result, and the same decoding result as the case in which the LDPC code of the original parity check matrix H is decoded using the parity check matrix H can be obtained.

FIG. 212 illustrates the transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 211 with being spaced in units of 5×5 matrixes.

In FIG. 212, the transformed parity check matrix H′ is represented by a combination of a 5×5 (=p×p) unit matrix that is a unit size P, a matrix (hereinafter, appropriately referred to as a quasi unit matrix) obtained by setting one or more 1 of the unit matrix to zero, a matrix (hereinafter, appropriately referred to as a shifted matrix) obtained by cyclically shifting the unit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, a sum (hereinafter, appropriately referred to as a sum matrix) of two or more matrixes of the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, and the shifted matrix, and a 5×5 zero matrix.

The transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 can be configured using the 5×5 unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, the shifted matrix, the sum matrix, and the zero matrix. Therefore, the 5×5 matrixes (the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, the shifted matrix, the sum matrix, and the zero matrix) that constitute the transformed parity check matrix H′ are appropriately referred to as constitutive matrixes hereinafter.

When the LDPC code represented by the parity check matrix represented by the P×P constitutive matrixes is decoded, an architecture in which P check node operations and variable node operations are simultaneously performed can be used.

FIG. 213 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a decoding device that performs the decoding.

That is, FIG. 213 illustrates the configuration example of the decoding device that performs decoding of the LDPC code, using the transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 210 obtained by performing at least the column replacement of the expression (12) with respect to the original parity check matrix H of FIG. 212.

The decoding device of FIG. 213 includes a branch data storing memory 300 that includes 6 FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, a selector 301 that selects the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, a check node calculating unit 302, two cyclic shift circuits 303 and 308, a branch data storing memory 304 that includes 18 FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, a selector 305 that selects the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, a reception data memory 306 that stores reception data, a variable node calculating unit 307, a decoding word calculating unit 309, a reception data rearranging unit 310, and a decoded data rearranging unit 311.

First, a method of storing data in the branch data storing memories 300 and 304 will be described.

The branch data storing memory 300 includes the 6 FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆ that correspond to a number obtained by dividing a row number 30 of the transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 by a row number 5 of the constitutive matrix (the unit size P). The FIFO 300 _(y) (y=1, 2, . . . , and 6) includes a plurality of steps of storage regions. In the storage region of each step, messages corresponding to five branches to be a row number and a column number of the constitutive matrix (the unit size P) can be simultaneously read or written. The number of steps of the storage regions of the FIFO 300 _(y) becomes 9 to be a maximum number of the number (Hamming weight) of 1 of a row direction of the transformed parity check matrix of FIG. 212.

In the FIFO 300 ₁, data (messages v_(i) from variable nodes) corresponding to positions of 1 in the first to fifth rows of the transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 is stored in a form filling each row in a transverse direction (a form in which 0 is ignored). That is, if a j-th row and an i-th column are represented as (j, i), data corresponding to positions of 1 of a 5×5 unit matrix of (1, 1) to (5, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored in the storage region of the first step of the FIFO 300 ₁. In the storage region of the second step, data corresponding to positions of 1 of a shifted matrix (shifted matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right side by 3) of (1, 21) to (5, 25) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored. Similar to the above case, in the storage regions of the third to eighth steps, data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′. In the storage region of the ninth step, data corresponding to positions of 1 of a shifted matrix (shifted matrix obtained by replacing 1 of the first row of the 5×5 unit matrix with 0 and cyclically shifting the unit matrix to the left side by 1) of (1, 86) to (5, 90) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored.

In the FIFO 300 ₂, data corresponding to positions of 1 in the sixth to tenth rows of the transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 is stored. That is, in the storage region of the first step of the FIFO 300 ₂, data corresponding to positions of 1 of the first shifted matrix constituting a sum matrix (sum matrix to be a sum of the first shifted matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right side by 1 and the second shifted matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right side by 2) of (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored. In addition, in the storage region of the second step, data corresponding to positions of 1 of the second shifted matrix constituting the sum matrix of (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored.

That is, with respect to a constitutive matrix of which the weight is two or more, when the constitutive matrix is represented by a sum of multiple parts of a P×P unit matrix of which the weight is 1, a quasi unit matrix in which one or more elements of 1 in the unit matrix become 0, or a shifted matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the unit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, data (messages corresponding to branches belonging to the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, or the shifted matrix) corresponding to the positions of 1 in the unit matrix of the weight of 1, the quasi unit matrix, or the shifted matrix is stored at the same address (the same FIFO among the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆).

Subsequently, in the storage regions of the third to ninth steps, data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′, similar to the above case.

In the FIFOs 300 ₃ to 300 ₆, data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′, similar to the above case.

The branch data storing memory 304 includes 18 FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈ that correspond to a number obtained by dividing a column number 90 of the transformed parity check matrix H′ by 5 to be a column number of a constitutive matrix (the unit size P). The FIFO 304 _(x) (x=1, 2, . . . , and 18) includes a plurality of steps of storage regions. In the storage region of each step, messages corresponding to five branches corresponding to a row number and a column number of the constitutive matrix (the unit size P) can be simultaneously read or written.

In the FIFO 304 ₁, data (messages u_(j) from check nodes) corresponding to positions of 1 in the first to fifth columns of the transformed parity check matrix H′ of FIG. 212 is stored in a form filling each column in a longitudinal direction (a form in which 0 is ignored). That is, if a j-th row and an i-th column are represented as (j, i), data corresponding to positions of 1 of a 5×5 unit matrix of (1, 1) to (5, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored in the storage region of the first step of the FIFO 304 ₁. In the storage region of the second step, data corresponding to positions of 1 of the first shifted matrix constituting a sum matrix (sum matrix to be a sum of the first shifted matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right side by 1 and the second shifted matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the 5×5 unit matrix to the right side by 2) of (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored. In addition, in the storage region of the third step, data corresponding to positions of 1 of the second shifted matrix constituting the sum matrix of (6, 1) to (10, 5) of the transformed parity check matrix H′ is stored.

That is, with respect to a constitutive matrix of which the weight is two or more, when the constitutive matrix is represented by a sum of multiple parts of a P×P unit matrix of which the weight is 1, a quasi unit matrix in which one or more elements of 1 in the unit matrix become 0, or a shifted matrix obtained by cyclically shifting the unit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, data (messages corresponding to branches belonging to the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix, or the shifted matrix) corresponding to the positions of 1 in the unit matrix of the weight of 1, the quasi unit matrix, or the shifted matrix is stored at the same address (the same FIFO among the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈).

Subsequently, in the storage regions of the fourth and fifth steps, data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′, similar to the above case. The number of steps of the storage regions of the FIFO 304 ₁ becomes 5 to be a maximum number of the number (Hamming weight) of 1 of a row direction in the first to fifth columns of the transformed parity check matrix H′.

In the FIFOs 304 ₂ and 304 ₃, data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′, similar to the above case, and each length (the number of steps) is 5. In the FIFOs 304 ₄ to 304 ₁₂, data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′, similar to the above case, and each length is 3. In the FIFOs 304 ₁₃ to 304 ₁₈, data is stored in association with the transformed parity check matrix H′, similar to the above case, and each length is 2.

Next, an operation of the decoding device of FIG. 213 will be described.

The branch data storing memory 300 includes the 6 FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆. According to information (matrix data) D312 on which row of the transformed parity check matrix H′ in FIG. 212 five messages D311 supplied from a cyclic shift circuit 308 of a previous step belongs to, the FIFO storing data is selected from the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆ and the five messages D311 are collectively stored sequentially in the selected FIFO. When the data is read, the branch data storing memory 300 sequentially reads the five messages D300 ₁ from the FIFO 300 ₁ and supplies the messages to the selector 301 of a next step. After reading of the messages from the FIFO 300 ₁ ends, the branch data storing memory 300 reads the messages sequentially from the FIFOs 300 ₂ to 300 ₆ and supplies the messages to the selector 301.

The selector 301 selects the five messages from the FIFO from which data is currently read, among the FIFOs 300 ₁ to 300 ₆, according to a select signal D301, and supplies the selected messages as messages D302 to the check node calculating unit 302.

The check node calculating unit 302 includes five check node calculators 302 ₁ to 302 ₅. The check node calculating unit 302 performs a check node operation according to the expression (7), using the messages D302 (D302 ₁ to D302 ₅) (messages v_(i) of the expression 7) supplied through the selector 301, and supplies five messages D303 (D303 ₁ to D303 ₅) (messages u_(j) of the expression (7)) obtained as a result of the check node operation to a cyclic shift circuit 303.

The cyclic shift circuit 303 cyclically shifts the five messages D303 ₁ to D303 ₅ calculated by the check node calculating unit 302, on the basis of information (matrix data) D305 on how many the unit matrixes (or the quasi unit matrix) becoming the origin in the transformed parity check matrix H′ are cyclically shifted to obtain the corresponding branches, and supplies a result as messages D304 to the branch data storing memory 304.

The branch data storing memory 304 includes the eighteen FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈. According to information D305 on which row of the transformed parity check matrix H′ five messages D304 supplied from a cyclic shift circuit 303 of a previous step belongs to, the FIFO storing data is selected from the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈ and the five messages D304 are collectively stored sequentially in the selected FIFO. When the data is read, the branch data storing memory 304 sequentially reads the five messages D304 ₁ from the FIFO 304 ₁ and supplies the messages to the selector 305 of a next step. After reading of the messages from the FIFO 304 ₁ ends, the branch data storing memory 304 reads the messages sequentially from the FIFOs 304 ₂ to 304 ₁₈ and supplies the messages to the selector 305.

The selector 305 selects the five messages from the FIFO from which data is currently read, among the FIFOs 304 ₁ to 304 ₁₈, according to a select signal D307, and supplies the selected messages as messages D308 to the variable node calculating unit 307 and the decoding word calculating unit 309.

Meanwhile, the reception data rearranging unit 310 rearranges the LDPC code D313, that is corresponding to the parity check matrix H in FIG. 210, received through the communication path 13 by performing the column replacement of the expression (12) and supplies the LDPC code as reception data D314 to the reception data memory 306. The reception data memory 306 calculates a reception LLR (Log Likelihood Ratio) from the reception data D314 supplied from the reception data rearranging unit 310, stores the reception LLR, collects five reception LLRs, and supplies the reception LLRs as reception values D309 to the variable node calculating unit 307 and the decoding word calculating unit 309.

The variable node calculating unit 307 includes five variable node calculators 307 ₁ to 307 ₅. The variable node calculating unit 307 performs the variable node operation according to the expression (1), using the messages D308 (D308 ₁ to D308 ₅) (messages u_(j) of the expression (1)) supplied through the selector 305 and the five reception values D309 (reception values u_(0i) of the expression (1)) supplied from the reception data memory 306, and supplies messages D310 (D310 ₁ to D310 ₅) (message v_(i) of the expression (1)) obtained as an operation result to the cyclic shift circuit 308.

The cyclic shift circuit 308 cyclically shifts the messages D310 ₁ to D310 ₅ calculated by the variable node calculating unit 307, on the basis of information on how many the unit matrixes (or the quasi unit matrix) becoming the origin in the transformed parity check matrix H′ are cyclically shifted to obtain the corresponding branches, and supplies a result as messages D311 to the branch data storing memory 300.

By circulating the above operation in one cycle, decoding (variable node operation and check node operation) of the LDPC code can be performed once. After decoding the LDPC code by the predetermined number of times, the decoding device of FIG. 213 calculates a final decoding result and outputs the final decoding result, in the decoding word calculating unit 309 and the decoded data rearranging unit 311.

That is, the decoding word calculating unit 309 includes five decoding word calculators 309 ₁ to 309 ₅. The decoding word calculating unit 309 calculates a decoding result (decoding word) on the basis of the expression (5), as a final step of multiple decoding, using the five messages D308 (D308 ₁ to D308 ₅) (messages u_(j) of the expression) output by the selector 305 and the five reception values D309 (reception values u_(0i) of the expression (5)) supplied from the reception data memory 306, and supplies decoded data D315 obtained as a result to the decoded data rearranging unit 311.

The decoded data rearranging unit 311 performs the reverse replacement of the column replacement of the expression (12) with respect to the decoded data D315 supplied from the decoding word calculating unit 309, rearranges the order thereof, and outputs the decoded data as a final decoding result D316.

As mentioned above, by performing one or both of row replacement and column replacement on the parity check matrix (original parity check matrix) and converting it into a parity check matrix (transformed parity check matrix) that can be shown by the combination of a p×p unit matrix, a quasi unit matrix in which one or more elements of 1 thereof become 0, a shifted matrix that cyclically shifts the unit matrix or the quasi unit matrix, a sum matrix that is the sum of two or more of the unit matrix, the quasi unit matrix and the shifted matrix, and a p×p 0 matrix, that is, the combination of constitutive matrixes, as for LDPC code decoding, it becomes possible to adopt architecture that simultaneously performs check node calculation and variable node calculation by P which is the number less than the row number and column number of the parity check matrix. In the case of adopting the architecture that simultaneously performs node calculation (check node calculation and variable node calculation) by P which is the number less than the row number and column number of the parity check matrix, as compared with a case where the node calculation is simultaneously performed by the number equal to the row number and column number of the parity check matrix, it is possible to suppress the operation frequency within a feasible range and perform many items of iterative decoding.

The LDPC decoder 166 that constitutes the receiving device 12 of FIG. 207 performs the LDPC decoding by simultaneously performing P check node operations and variable node operations, similar to the decoding device of FIG. 213.

That is, for the simplification of explanation, if the parity check matrix of the LDPC code output by the LDPC encoder 115 constituting the transmitting device 11 of FIG. 8 is regarded as the parity check matrix H illustrated in FIG. 210 in which the parity matrix becomes a staircase structure, in the parity interleaver 23 of the transmitting device 11, the parity interleave to interleave the (K+qx+y+1)-th code bit into the position of the (K+Py+x+1)-th code bit is performed in a state in which the information K is set to 60, the unit size P is set to 5, and the divisor q (=M/P) of the parity length M is set to 6.

Because the parity interleave corresponds to the column replacement of the expression (12) as described above, it is not necessary to perform the column replacement of the expression (12) in the LDPC decoder 166.

For this reason, in the receiving device 12 of FIG. 207, as described above, the LDPC code in which the parity deinterleave is not performed, that is, the LDPC code in a state in which the column replacement of the expression (12) is performed is supplied from the group-wise deinterleaver 55 to the LDPC decoder 166. In the LDPC decoder 166, the same processing as the decoding device of FIG. 213, except that the column replacement of the expression (12) is not performed, is executed.

That is, FIG. 214 illustrates a configuration example of the LDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 207.

In FIG. 214, the LDPC decoder 166 has the same configuration as the decoding device of FIG. 213, except that the reception data rearranging unit 310 of FIG. 213 is not provided, and executes the same processing as the decoding device of FIG. 213, except that the column replacement of the expression (12) is not performed. Therefore, explanation of the LDPC decoder is omitted.

As described above, because the LDPC decoder 166 can be configured without providing the reception data rearranging unit 310, a scale can be decreased as compared with the decoding device of FIG. 213.

In FIGS. 210 to 214, for the simplification of explanation, the code length N of the LDPC code is set to 90, the information length K is set to 60, the unit size (the row number and the column number of the constitutive matrix) P is set to 5, and the divisor q (=M/P) of the parity length M is set to 6. However, the code length N, the information length K, the unit size P, and the divisor q (=M/P) are not limited to the above values.

That is, in the transmitting device 11 of FIG. 8, the LDPC encoder 115 outputs the LDPC code in which the code length N is set to 64800 or 16200, the information length K is set to N−Pq (=N−M), the unit size P is set to 360, and the divisor q is set to M/P. However, the LDPC decoder 166 of FIG. 214 can be applied to the case in which P check node operation and variable node operations are simultaneously performed with respect to the LDPC code and the LDPC decoding is performed.

Further, when the parity portion of the decoding result is unnecessary, and only the information bits of the decoding result are output after the decoding of the LDPC code by the LDPC decoder 166, the LDPC decoder 166 may be configured without the decoded data rearranging unit 311.

<Configuration Example of Block Deinterleaver 54>

FIG. 215 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the block deinterleaver 54 of FIG. 208.

The block deinterleaver 54 has a similar configuration to the block interleaver 25 described above with reference to FIG. 105.

Thus, the block deinterleaver 54 includes the storage region called the part 1 and the storage region called the part 2, and each of the parts 1 and 2 is configured such that a number C of columns equal in number to the number m of bits of the symbol and serving as storage regions that store one bit in the row (horizontal) direction and store a predetermined number of bits in the column (vertical) direction are arranged.

The block deinterleaver 54 performs the block deinterleave by writing the LDPC code in the parts 1 and 2 and reading the LDPC code from the parts 1 and 2.

However, in the block deinterleave, the writing of the LDPC code (serving as the symbol) is performed in the order in which the LDPC code is read by the block interleaver 25 of FIG. 105.

Further, in the block deinterleave, the reading of the LDPC code is performed in the order in which the LDPC code is written by the block interleaver 25 of FIG. 105.

In other words, in the block interleave performed by the block interleaver 25 of FIG. 105, the LDPC code is written in the parts 1 and 2 in the column direction and read from the parts 1 and 2 in the row direction, but in the block deinterleave performed by the block deinterleaver 54 of FIG. 215, the LDPC code is written in the parts 1 and 2 in the row direction and read from the parts 1 and 2 in the column direction.

<Other Configuration Example of Bit Deinterleaver 165>

FIG. 216 is a block diagram illustrating another configuration example of the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 217.

In the drawings, portions that correspond to the case of FIG. 208 are denoted with the same reference numerals and explanation thereof is appropriately omitted hereinafter.

That is, the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 216 has the same configuration as the case of FIG. 208, except that a parity deinterleaver 1011 is newly provided.

Referring to FIG. 216, the bit deinterleaver 165 is configured with a block deinterleaver 54, a group-wise deinterleaver 55, and a parity deinterleaver 1011, and performs the bit deinterleave on the code bits of the LDPC code supplied from the demapper 164.

In other words, the block deinterleaver 54 performs the block deinterleave (the inverse process of the block interleave) corresponding to the block interleave performed by the block interleaver 25 of the transmitting device 11, that is, the block deinterleave of restoring the positions of the code bits rearranged by the block interleave to the original positions on the LDPC code supplied from the demapper 164, and supplies the LDPC code obtained as a result to the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The group-wise deinterleaver 55 performs the group-wise deinterleave corresponding to the group-wise interleave serving as the rearrangement process performed by the group-wise interleaver 24 of the transmitting device 11 on the LDPC code supplied from the block deinterleaver 54.

The LDPC code that is obtained as a result of the group-wise deinterleave is supplied from the group-wise deinterleaver 55 to the parity deinterleaver 1011.

The parity deinterleaver 1011 performs the parity deinterleave (reverse processing of the parity interleave) corresponding to the parity interleave performed by the parity interleaver 23 of the transmitting device 11, that is, the parity deinterleave to restore the sequence of the code bits of the LDPC code of which a sequence is changed by the parity interleave to the original sequence, with respect to the code bits after the group-wise deinterleave in the group-wise deinterleaver 55.

The LDPC code that is obtained as a result of the parity deinterleave is supplied from the parity deinterleaver 1011 to the LDPC decoder 166.

Therefore, in the bit deinterleaver 165 of FIG. 216, the LDPC code in which the block deinterleave, the group-wise deinterleave, and the parity deinterleave are performed, that is, the LDPC code that is obtained by the LDPC encoding according to the parity check matrix H is supplied to the LDPC decoder 166.

The LDPC decoder 166 performs the LDPC decoding of the LDPC code supplied from the bit deinterleaver 165 using the parity check matrix H used for the LDPC encoding by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmitting device 11. In other words, the LDPC decoder 166 performs the LDPC decoding of the LDPC code supplied from the bit deinterleaver 165 using the parity check matrix H (of the DVB scheme) used for the LDPC encoding by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmitting device 11 or the transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing at least the column permutation corresponding to the parity interleave on the parity check matrix H (for the ETRI scheme, the parity check matrix (FIG. 28) obtained by performing the column permutation on the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) used for the LDPC encoding or the transformed parity check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performing the row permutation on the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) used for the LDPC encoding).

In FIG. 216, the LDPC code that is obtained by the LDPC encoding according to the parity check matrix H is supplied from (the parity deinterleaver 1011 of) the bit deinterleaver 165 to the LDPC decoder 166. For this reason, when the LDPC decoding of the LDPC code is performed using the parity check matrix H (of the DVB method) itself used by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmitting device 11 to perform the LDPC encoding (for the ETRI scheme, the parity check matrix

(FIG. 28) obtained by performing the column permutation on the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) used for the LDPC encoding), the LDPC decoder 166 can be configured by a decoding device performing the LDPC decoding according to a full serial decoding method to sequentially perform operations of messages (a check node message and a variable node message) for each node or a decoding device performing the LDPC decoding according to a full parallel decoding method to simultaneously (in parallel) perform operations of messages for all nodes.

In the LDPC decoder 166, when the LDPC decoding of the LDPC code is performed using the transformed parity check matrix obtained by performing at least the column replacement corresponding to the parity interleave with respect to the parity check matrix H (of the DVB method) used by the LDPC encoder 115 of the transmitting device 11 to perform the LDPC encoding (for the ETRI scheme, the transformed parity check matrix (FIG. 29) obtained by performing the row permutation on the parity check matrix (FIG. 27) used for the LDPC encoding), the LDPC decoder 166 can be configured by a decoding device (FIG. 213) that is a decoding device of an architecture simultaneously performing P (or divisor of P other than 1) check node operations and variable node operations and has the reception data rearranging unit 310 to perform the same column replacement as the column replacement (parity interleave) to obtain the transformed parity check matrix with respect to the LDPC code and rearrange the code bits of the LDPC code.

In FIG. 216, for the sake of convenience of description, the block deinterleaver 54 that performs the block deinterleave, the group-wise deinterleaver 55 that performs the group-wise deinterleave, and the parity deinterleaver 1011 that performs the parity deinterleave are configured individually, but two or more of the block deinterleaver 54, the group-wise deinterleaver 55, and the parity deinterleaver 1011 may be configured integrally, similarly to the parity interleaver 23, the group-wise interleaver 24, and the block interleaver 25 of the transmitting device 11.

<Configuration Example of Reception System>

FIG. 217 is a block diagram illustrating a first configuration example of a reception system that can be applied to the receiving device 12.

In FIG. 217, the reception system includes an acquiring unit 1101, a transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, and an information source decoding processing unit 1103.

The acquiring unit 1101 acquires a signal including an LDPC code obtained by performing at least LDPC encoding with respect to LDPC target data such as image data or sound data of a program, through a transmission path (communication path) not illustrated in the drawings, such as terrestrial digital broadcasting, satellite digital broadcasting, a CATV network, the Internet, or other networks, and supplies the signal to the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102.

In this case, when the signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 is broadcast from a broadcasting station through a ground wave, a satellite wave, or a CATV (Cable Television) network, the acquiring unit 1101 is configured using a tuner and an STB (Set Top Box). When the signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 is transmitted from a web server by multicasting like an IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), the acquiring unit 1101 is configured using a network I/F (Interface) such as an MC (Network Interface Card).

The transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 corresponds to the receiving device 12. The transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 executes transmission path decoding processing including at least processing for correcting error generated in a transmission path, with respect to the signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 through the transmission path, and supplies a signal obtained as a result to the information source decoding processing unit 1103.

That is, the signal that is acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 through the transmission path is a signal that is obtained by performing at least error correction encoding to correct the error generated in the transmission path. The transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 executes transmission path decoding processing such as error correction processing, with respect to the signal.

As the error correction encoding, for example, LDPC encoding or BCH encoding exists. In this case, as the error correction encoding, at least the LDPC encoding is performed.

The transmission path decoding processing includes demodulation of a modulation signal.

The information source decoding processing unit 1103 executes information source decoding processing including at least processing for extending compressed information to original information, with respect to the signal on which the transmission path decoding processing is executed.

That is, compression encoding that compresses information may be performed with respect to the signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 through the transmission path to decrease a data amount of an image or a sound corresponding to information. In this case, the information source decoding processing unit 1103 executes the information source decoding processing such as the processing (extension processing) for extending the compressed information to the original information, with respect to the signal on which the transmission path decoding processing is executed.

When the compression encoding is not performed with respect to the signal acquired by the acquiring unit 1101 through the transmission path, the processing for extending the compressed information to the original information is not executed in the information source decoding processing unit 1103.

In this case, as the extension processing, for example, MPEG decoding exists. In the transmission path decoding processing, in addition to the extension processing, descramble may be included.

In the reception system that is configured as described above, in the acquiring unit 1101, a signal in which the compression encoding such as the MPEG encoding and the error correction encoding such as the LDPC encoding are performed with respect to data such as an image or a sound is acquired through the transmission path and is supplied to the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102.

In the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, the same processing as the receiving device 12 executes as the transmission path decoding processing with respect to the signal supplied from the acquiring unit 1101 and a signal obtained as a result is supplied to the information source decoding processing unit 1103.

In the information source decoding processing unit 1103, the information source decoding processing such as the MPEG decoding is executed with respect to the signal supplied from the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 and an image or a sound obtained as a result is output.

The reception system of FIG. 217 described above can be applied to a television tuner to receive television broadcasting corresponding to digital broadcasting.

Each of the acquiring unit 1101, the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, and the information source decoding processing unit 1103 can be configured as one independent device (hardware (IC (Integrated Circuit) and the like) or software module).

With respect to the acquiring unit 1101, the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, and the information source decoding processing unit 1103, each of a set of the acquiring unit 1101 and the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, a set of the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 and the information source decoding processing unit 1103, and a set of the acquiring unit 1101, the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, and the information source decoding processing unit 1103 can be configured as one independent device.

FIG. 218 is a block diagram illustrating a second configuration example of the reception system that can be applied to the receiving device 12.

In the drawings, portions that correspond to the case of FIG. 217 are denoted with the same reference numerals and explanation thereof is appropriately omitted hereinafter.

The reception system of FIG. 218 is common to the case of FIG. 217 in that the acquiring unit 1101, the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102, and the information source decoding processing unit 1103 are provided and is different from the case of FIG. 217 in that an output unit 1111 is newly provided.

The output unit 1111 is a display device to display an image or a speaker to output a sound and outputs an image or a sound corresponding to a signal output from the information source decoding processing unit 1103. That is, the output unit 1111 displays the image or outputs the sound.

The reception system of FIG. 218 described above can be applied to a TV (television receiver) receiving television broadcasting corresponding to digital broadcasting or a radio receiver receiving radio broadcasting.

When the compression encoding is not performed with respect to the signal acquired in the acquiring unit 1101, the signal that is output by the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 is supplied to the output unit 1111.

FIG. 219 is a block diagram illustrating a third configuration example of the reception system that can be applied to the receiving device 12.

In the drawings, portions that correspond to the case of FIG. 217 are denoted with the same reference numerals and explanation thereof is appropriately omitted hereinafter.

The reception system of FIG. 219 is common to the case of FIG. 217 in that the acquiring unit 1101 and the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 are provided.

However, the reception system of FIG. 219 is different from the case of FIG. 217 in that the information source decoding processing unit 1103 is not provided and a recording unit 1121 is newly provided.

The recording unit 1121 records (stores) a signal (for example, TS packets of TS of MPEG) output by the transmission path decoding processing unit 1102 on recording (storage) media such as an optical disk, a hard disk (magnetic disk), and a flash memory.

The reception system of FIG. 219 described above can be applied to a recorder that records television broadcasting.

In FIG. 219, the reception system is configured by providing the information source decoding processing unit 1103 and can record the signal obtained by executing the information source decoding processing by the information source decoding processing unit 1103, that is, the image or the sound obtained by decoding, by the recording unit 1121.

<Embodiment of Computer>

Next, the series of processing described above can be executed by hardware or can be executed by software. In the case in which the series of processing is executed by the software, a program configuring the software is installed in a general-purpose computer.

Therefore, FIG. 220 illustrates a configuration example of an embodiment of the computer in which a program executing the series of processing is installed.

The program can be previously recorded on a hard disk 705 and a ROM 703 corresponding to recording media embedded in the computer.

Alternatively, the program can be temporarily or permanently stored (recorded) on removable recording media 711 such as a flexible disk, a CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory), an MO (Magneto Optical) disk, a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc), a magnetic disk, and a semiconductor memory. The removable recording media 711 can be provided as so-called package software.

The program is installed from the removable recording media 711 to the computer. In addition, the program can be transmitted from a download site to the computer by wireless through an artificial satellite for digital satellite broadcasting or can be transmitted to the computer by wire through a network such as a LAN (Local Area Network) or the Internet. The computer can receive the program transmitted as described above by a communication unit 708 and install the program in the embedded hard disk 705.

The computer includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 702 embedded therein. An input/output interface 710 is connected to the CPU 702 through a bus 701. If a user operates an input unit 707 configured using a keyboard, a mouse, and a microphone and a command is input through the input/output interface 710, the CPU 702 executes the program stored in the ROM (Read Only Memory) 703, according to the command. Alternatively, the CPU 702 loads the program stored in the hard disk 705, the program transmitted from a satellite or a network, received by the communication unit 708, and installed in the hard disk 705, or the program read from the removable recording media 711 mounted to a drive 709 and installed in the hard disk 705 to the RAM (Random Access Memory) 704 and executes the program. Thereby, the CPU 702 executes the processing according to the flowcharts described above or the processing executed by the configurations of the block diagrams described above. In addition, the CPU 702 outputs the processing result from the output unit 706 configured using an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or a speaker, transmits the processing result from the communication unit 708, and records the processing result on the hard disk 705, through the input/output interface 710, according to necessity.

In the present specification, it is not necessary to process the processing steps describing the program for causing the computer to execute the various processing in time series according to the order described as the flowcharts and processing executed in parallel or individually (for example, parallel processing or processing using an object) is also included.

The program may be processed by one computer or may be processed by a plurality of computers in a distributed manner. The program may be transmitted to a remote computer and may be executed.

An embodiment of the disclosure is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the disclosure.

That is, for example, (the parity check matrix initial value table of) the above-described new LDPC code can be used even if the communication path 13 (FIG. 7) is any of a satellite circuit, a ground wave, a cable (wire circuit) and others. In addition, the new LDPC code can also be used for data transmission other than digital broadcasting.

The GW patterns can be applied to a code other than the new LDPC code. Further, the modulation scheme to which the GW patterns are applied is not limited to QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM, 1024QAM, and 4096QAM.

The effects described in this specification are merely examples and not limited, and any other effect may be obtained.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

-   11 transmitting device -   12 receiving device -   23 parity interleaver -   24 group-wise interleaver -   25 block interleaver -   54 block deinterleaver -   55 group-wise deinterleaver -   111 mode adaptation/multiplexer -   112 padder -   113 BB scrambler -   114 BCH encoder -   115 LDPC encoder -   116 bit interleaver -   117 mapper -   118 time interleaver -   119 SISO/MISO encoder -   120 frequency interleaver -   121 BCH encoder -   122 LDPC encoder -   123 mapper -   124 frequency interleaver -   131 frame builder/resource allocation unit -   132 OFDM generating unit -   151 OFDM operating unit -   152 frame managing unit -   153 frequency deinterleaver -   154 demapper -   155 LDPC decoder -   156 BCH decoder -   161 frequency deinterleaver -   162 SISO/MISO decoder -   163 time deinterleaver -   164 demapper -   165 bit deinterleaver -   166 LDPC decoder -   167 BCH decoder -   168 BB descrambler -   169 null deletion unit -   170 demultiplexer -   300 branch data storing memory -   301 selector -   302 check node calculating unit -   303 cyclic shift circuit -   304 branch data storing memory -   305 selector -   306 reception data memory -   307 variable node calculating unit -   308 cyclic shift circuit -   309 decoding word calculating unit -   310 reception data rearranging unit -   311 decoded data rearranging unit -   601 encoding processing unit -   602 storage unit -   611 encoding rate setting unit -   612 initial value table reading unit -   613 parity check matrix generating unit -   614 information bit reading unit -   615 encoding parity operation unit -   616 control unit -   701 bus -   702 CPU -   703 ROM -   704 RAM -   705 hard disk -   706 output unit -   707 input unit -   708 communication unit -   709 drive -   710 input/output interface -   711 removable recording media -   1001 reverse interchanging unit -   1002 memory -   1011 parity deinterleaver -   1101 acquiring unit -   1101 transmission path decoding processing unit -   1103 information source decoding processing unit -   1111 output unit -   1121 recording unit 

1. A data processing device, comprising: encoding circuitry that performs low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15; group-wise interleaving circuitry that performs a group-wise interleave of an interleaving of the LDPC code, encoded by the encoding circuitry, in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and mapping circuitry that maps the LDPC code, from the group-wise interleaving circuitry, to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits, wherein in the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups 71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121, 151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110, 128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150, 103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89, 4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124, 7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112, 99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44, 106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88, 54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24, 49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176, 74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130, 160, 2, 126, 51, and 137, the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes 1606 3402 4961 6751 7132 11516 12300 12482 12592 13342 13764 14123 21576 23946 24533 25376 25667 26836 31799 34173 35462 36153 36740 37085 37152 37468 37658 4621 5007 6910 8732 9757 11508 13099 15513 16335 18052 19512 21319 23663 25628 27208 31333 32219 33003 33239 33447 36200 36473 36938 37201 37283 37495 38642 16 1094 2020 3080 4194 5098 5631 6877 7889 8237 9804 10067 11017 11366 13136 13354 15379 18934 20199 24522 26172 28666 30386 32714 36390 37015 37162 700 897 1708 6017 6490 7372 7825 9546 10398 16605 18561 18745 21625 22137 23693 24340 24966 25015 26995 28586 28895 29687 33938 34520 34858 37056 38297 159 2010 2573 3617 4452 4958 5556 5832 6481 8227 9924 10836 14954 15594 16623 18065 19249 22394 22677 23408 23731 24076 24776 27007 28222 30343 38371 3118 3545 4768 4992 5227 6732 8170 9397 10522 11508 15536 20218 21921 28599 29445 29758 29968 31014 32027 33685 34378 35867 36323 36728 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 37653. 2. A data processing method comprising: performing low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15; performing a group-wise interleave of an interleaving of the encoded LDPC code in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and mapping the interleaved LDPC code to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits, wherein in the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups 71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121, 151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110, 128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150, 103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89, 4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124, 7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112, 99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44, 106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88, 54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24, 49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176, 74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130, 160, 2, 126, 51, and 137, the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes 1606 3402 4961 6751 7132 11516 12300 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 37653. 3. A data processing device comprising: group-wise deinterleaving circuitry that restores a sequence of a low-density parity check (LDPC) code that has undergone a group-wise interleave and has been obtained from data transmitted from a transmitting device to an original sequence, wherein the transmitting device includes encoding circuitry that performs LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix of an LDPC code in which a code length N is 64800 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15; group-wise interleaving circuitry that performs a group-wise interleave of an interleaving of the LDPC code, encoded by the encoding circuitry, in units of bit groups of 360 bits; and mapping circuitry that maps the LDPC code, from the group-wise interleaving circuitry, to any of 4096 signal points decided in a modulation scheme in units of 12 bits, in the group-wise interleave, when an (i+1)-th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is indicated by a bit group i, a sequence of bit groups 0 to 179 of the LDPC code of 64800 bits is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups 71, 38, 98, 159, 1, 32, 28, 177, 125, 102, 83, 17, 121, 151, 66, 92, 140, 6, 165, 23, 75, 91, 87, 108, 163, 50, 77, 39, 110, 128, 73, 148, 14, 5, 68, 37, 53, 93, 149, 26, 166, 48, 79, 10, 122, 150, 103, 178, 119, 101, 61, 34, 8, 86, 36, 138, 146, 72, 179, 143, 147, 89, 4, 107, 33, 144, 141, 40, 100, 29, 118, 63, 46, 20, 153, 90, 152, 124, 7, 30, 31, 43, 78, 120, 85, 25, 52, 47, 64, 81, 175, 94, 115, 15, 112, 99, 13, 21, 42, 169, 76, 19, 168, 16, 27, 162, 167, 164, 97, 82, 44, 106, 12, 109, 132, 145, 161, 174, 95, 0, 105, 134, 173, 84, 9, 65, 88, 54, 67, 116, 154, 80, 22, 172, 60, 111, 133, 56, 170, 104, 131, 123, 24, 49, 113, 136, 55, 3, 157, 156, 35, 58, 45, 155, 70, 59, 57, 171, 176, 74, 117, 18, 127, 114, 11, 69, 158, 129, 139, 62, 135, 96, 142, 41, 130, 160, 2, 126, 51, and 137, the LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bit and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bit, the information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a table in which a position of a 1 element of the information matrix portion is indicated for every 360 columns, and includes 1606 3402 4961 6751 7132 11516 12300 12482 12592 13342 13764 14123 21576 23946 24533 25376 25667 26836 31799 34173 35462 36153 36740 37085 37152 37468 37658 4621 5007 6910 8732 9757 11508 13099 15513 16335 18052 19512 21319 23663 25628 27208 31333 32219 33003 33239 33447 36200 36473 36938 37201 37283 37495 38642 16 1094 2020 3080 4194 5098 5631 6877 7889 8237 9804 10067 11017 11366 13136 13354 15379 18934 20199 24522 26172 28666 30386 32714 36390 37015 37162 700 897 1708 6017 6490 7372 7825 9546 10398 16605 18561 18745 21625 22137 23693 24340 24966 25015 26995 28586 28895 29687 33938 34520 34858 37056 38297 159 2010 2573 3617 4452 4958 5556 5832 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 37653. 4. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein to perform the LDPC encoding based on the parity check matrix of the LDPC code, the encoding circuitry is configured to set the code length N and the encoding rate r.
 5. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein to perform the LDPC encoding based on the parity check matrix of the LDPC code, the encoding circuitry is configured to generate the parity check matrix according to the code length N.
 6. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the encoding circuitry is configured to extract information bits corresponding to an information length K from LDPC target data supplied to the encoding circuitry.
 7. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the encoding circuitry is configured to generate a code word by calculating parity bits for information bits read based on the parity check matrix.
 8. A transmitting device, comprising: the data processing device according to claim 1; generating circuitry that generates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal corresponding to a frame that is configured according to the mapped LDPC code; and a transmitter that transmits the OFDM signal.
 9. The data processing method according to claim 2, wherein the LDPC encoding includes setting the code length N and the encoding rate r.
 10. The data processing method according to claim 2, wherein the LDPC encoding includes generating the parity check matrix according to the code length N.
 11. The data processing method according to claim 2, further comprising extracting information bits corresponding to an information length K from LDPC target data supplied to the encoding circuitry.
 12. The data processing method according to claim 2, further comprising generating a code word by calculating parity bits for information bits read based on the parity check matrix.
 13. A transmitting method, comprising: the data processing method according to claim 2; generating an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal corresponding to a frame that is configured according to the mapped LDPC code; and transmitting the OFDM signal. 